Does your SSD Type Matter? — SLC vs TLC vs QLC — NAND Matters — Tech Deals

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00:00 Does your SSD Type Matter? — SLC vs TLC vs QLC — NAND Matters — Tech Deals

[LongIslandVideoGamer]

I've been using a 1 TB 660p for 5 years as a game drive. 26k host writes. 30k power on hours. Health status is 96%.

[Ladioz]

Ive been using my samsung 870 evo as a game storage for many years now. Im beginning to feel left out while others seem to be having a good time running games on an M.2 NVMe ... Alot of people say ''doesn't matter'' because people are obsessed with focusing on loading screens, but i genuinely believe its more beneficial than that, especially in big open worlds

[earlbond]

Just choose known brands with DRAM Cache it will really help in extending the life of the ssd to 5 years and above. 👍

[cremer]

Back when SSD prices were around the $1.00 per Gigabyte mark, I bought a 256 GB Mushkin 2.5 inch SSD. Died on me a month or so before my one year mark. Customer support was great, sent back the old and got a replacement. That replacement died at about 4 years. Decided to not go with Mushkin anymore. Since then, I am currently using Silicon Power, WD, Sabrent, and Team Group. So far no issues with any of them.

[ElladanKenet]

Absolute price makes a difference. Consider 50% off. When 50% off $500 means $250, that's still understandably hard to swallow if $250 makes you squirm.

But when 50% off $50 becomes $25, then the logic doesn't hold up as much. It's still only a $25 difference, and I'd happily skip take out for a week or two if it meant having a much better drive.

I mean, look at the prices of the good m.2s like the 980 Pro, compared to SATA ssds? I did the math, and even when they were at $200, they were STILL WORTH IT, because the high end m.2 drives made up for it with tons of improved performance and reliability. At half price or cheaper the argument is way stronger in favor of the m.2s. When there's like a $20 difference between a SATA drive and a nice m.2, $ kinda becomes irrelevant.

Moot point of course if you don't have enough pcie lanes, but do have SATA plugs to spare.

[holgerwikingsen]

I've only bought 2 ssds and they both lasted only 3 years. Both Crucial M500 one sata and the other m-sata. Bought them in 2014. Still have them, they just locked themselves up and went read only even after I took really really good care of them. Companion software reports that they are 100% healthy, data is still there and I can read it. Seems to be the controller. I tried EVERYTHING until I just let them go. Now I'm using hdds and backup data immediately.

[michaelwright]

I’m shocked how SanDisc (western digital) can fit 1TB on a micro sd card that is the size of a finger nail…and achieve the speeds that they do at V1 and V2. I have a couple of them for my Steamdeck Oled. I do still have a couple of Intel 670p 1tb’s that I used for game storage in my last build. I think they sold their tooling off to SK Hynix to make Solidigm ssd’s and those are pretty good too. There is a whole rabbit hole of just hard drive information to understand. It’s a bit much to wrap your head around the technology…

[dystopia-usa]

Intel/Solidigm enterprise-class SSD's have never let me down, but you pay extra for that quality. My oldest one (used as primary drive in 2 successive system builds) is more than 10 years old today & still rated at 100% health. My latest 2024 build uses my first-ever M.2 SSD & I went with the Intel/Solidigm 2TB P44 Pro M.2 2280 NVMe. I'm also using an Intel/Solidigm enterprise-class D3-S4620 960GB SATA 2.5 SSD in the system as a secondary drive. I expect both will outlive that PC build & me.

[lukewalker]

I will summarize for those with short attention span which is most of us....
Does SSD type matter? Not much. Stick with name brand unless you feel lucky...lol
And, most know, always back up your data.

[DANKOSVIBIN]

My only ssd failure so far has been from Crucial. Can't remember the series but I know it was their budget cacheless one.

[geost]

I have and just tested my old Adata XPG SX8200 512GB NVME. I was always happy of it, fast, reliable and in my PC from day 1 I built it. 3400MB seq.read, 69MB RND4K Q1T1 (drive is 65% full, boot drive). So it is performing better than SSDs tested in video, not sure if way slower than good "name brand" models mentioned, as my Adata one was not mentioned. But I like it and it is just fast and works fine for me, no plans to replace it. I have other 2 storage SSDs, so n512 for boot and my work software + the 2 games I only play is more than enough.

[StefanEtienneTheVerrgeRep]

Cache Rules Everything Around Me (get the money!)
DOLLA DOLLA BILL YALL

[TheBroot]

What do you guys think of the corsair mp600 4tb gen4x4 1. 4 3d tlc? Saw it on new egg....

[Diversifried]

The QLC has the extra layer over TLC, so it can I/O more bits at a time. It gives the QLC the speed advantage but the material breaks down faster as a trade-off. Sweet spot imo is MLC.

[wolfshanze]

I have a Crucial P5 2TB M.2 SSD NVMe (not P5 Plus), which uses TLC and my only Drive. It's sitting in my main system which is an I7 10700F with a 3070Ti and 32GB DDR4. Pretty happy with my entire setup, don't see upgrading anything for the foreseeable future.

[michaelsoutherland]

The newer Western Digital SN580s are great for a thin and light laptops. Chose the SN580 over the SN770.

[Born-in-the-wrong-body]

I have a Samsung 250GB 870 EVO 2.5 SATA SSD as my boot drive running windows 11 home and a 1TB Samsung 870 QVO running steam games, should I upgrade my 1TB QVO to a 1TB EVO or should I leave them as they are, when play games on steam I get great frame rate with no freezing or stuttering

[Anon-cvru]

Been using SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB x 2 as game drive.. so far so good. OS drive using a WD_BLACK SN850X 2TB, and also a WD_BLACK D30 2TB external SSD as a game drive also.

[whatif]

A new type of HDD and a new sata type is on the horizon.

[bodasactra]

I use Micro Center brand PCIe 4x4 with 2GB system RAM buffer. I get 20GB + R/W. I use Primo Cache software to manage the system RAM buffer. RAM drive speeds without using a RAM drive. It works just as fast with a USB 3.2 external mechanical hard drive; 20GBs.