Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD - Dramatically increasing its endurance and even performance!

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TEST BENCH
– OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (Build: 23H2)
– CPU: Intel Core i7 13700K (5.7GHz all core) (E-cores e Hyper-threading desabled)
– RAM: 2 × 16 GB DDR4-3200MHz CL-16 Netac (c/ XMP)
– Motherboard: MSI Z790-P PRO WIFI D4 (Bios Ver.: 7E06v18)
– (OS Drive): SSD Solidigm P44 Pro 2TB (Firmware: 001C)
– DUT SSD: SSD Crucial BX500 500GB (Firmware: My custom Firmware)
– Chipset Driver Intel Z790: 10.1.19376.8374.
– Windows: Indexing disabled to avoid affecting test results.
– Windows: Windows updates disabled to avoid affecting test results
– Windows: Most Windows applications disabled from running in the background.
– Boot Windows: Clean Image with only Drivers
– Test pSLC Cache: The SSD is cooled by fans to prevent thermal throttling, ensuring it doesn’t interfere with the test results.
– Windows: Antivirus disabled to minimize variation in each round.
– DUT SSDs: Used as a secondary drive, with 0% of space being utilized, and other tests conducted with 50% of space utilized to represent a realistic scenario.
– Quarch PPM QTL1999 – Power consumption test: conducted with three parameters—idle, where the drive is left as a secondary, and after a period of idle, a one-hour write test is performed, and the average power consumption is recorded

0:00 - Start
0:24 - Intro
0:30 - Disclaimer
1:16 - Technical Specifications
3:40 - Internal Components of the SSD
8:30 - Tutorial: how to make the drive pSLC?
20:09 - How much endurance does this increase?
23:16 - Support Links
23:38 - Crystal Disk Mark - Sequential
24:08 - Crystal Disk Mark - Latency
24:47 - Crystal Disk Mark - Random @ QD4
24:58 - Crystal Disk Mark - Random @ QD1
25:09 - ATTO Disk Benchmark - Read and Write QD4 and QD1
26:04 - 3D Mark Storage Benchmark
26:39 - PCMark 10 - Full System Drive Benchmark
27:25 - Adobe Premiere
27:45 - Final Fantasy XIV
27:53 - Boot Windows 11
28:02 - pSLC Cache
30:27 - Diskbench - File Transfer
31:38 - Temperature
32:18 - Power Consumption and Efficiency
34:30 - Conclusion

[robertyboberty]

Successfully flashed a cheap 240GB I had lying around down to 60GB to use as a NAS boot disk. This will be a great way to make durable cache drives, too. Thanks for sharing

[CanizaM]

Thank you for proving this is possible. You will have motivated others into more research on how to do this with other models and controllers, and maybe even convince some of the smaller manufacturers that there is a demand for reasonably sized SLC SSDs.

[Raintiger]

I have 8 crucial MX 1TB drives recently pulled from my server that I'd love to convert from TLC to SLC and you've given me the push I needed to investigate how to do that.

[georgevul]

Great video! Now we need to find some good TLC PCI-E 4.0/5.0 2-4TB drive and make 650-1300GB SLC out of it.

[ryangreen]

If they can make SLC cheap enough to put 120GB on a $38 drive they could make a ~500 GB for around $100 but with insane durability, why would they not be making SLC drives still? Heck its hard to even get MLC drives now with TLC and QLC most common but why not only use those for large drives?

[moti_vatin]

BTW, you should remove the clamp right after your drive is detected by MPTool. That's what people on USBDev forum say, and that's why you had "Not ISP Mode" error at 18:22.

[CDWD-Project]

Man this is a great video. I love this type of content as I love to just do random stuff as well like this and for the people that best you from getting the software from Russia don't even pay them any mind they're not worth it.

[anshkhanna]

Hey Gabriel. Hats off to you brother. Good content. I would like to see more of such videos in english.

I would also like to know if this can be done on Crucial MX 500 which has an SLC DRAM and will it affect the SLC DRAM CACHE?

[Maeglin]

Does this mean that when you have a say samsung 870 QVO 8TB QLC drive you can made a 2 TB SLC version of it?

[shades]

Thought I'd try this on the 240GB version of the BX500 I have but not sure which die to use... The controler is an SM2259XT so that part's easy, but the NAND flash is an unbranded PF882 and I'm not having any luck decifering it ☹️

[louigi]

Hi Gabriel,
My son managed to enable the ATA password lock feature on an Intenso Top SATA III 512Gb drive, and then forget it.
The drive internally is using the SM2259xt2gaa controller. Unsure about the flash chip that have a sticker that voids warranty if I remove it.
There is only one flash chip soldered.
I was unable to reset it with all the online hdparm suggestions.
Is there any other way I can reset it? I don't mind loosing the data.
Intenso support was useless ...
I'm still in time to have it retunrd to Amazon ... but I'd give it a go at reseting it befor returning it.

[tearlwork]

Hi there Gabriel,

Did you manage to take reading of the changes in IOPS at QD1 and QD32?

[xpk]

I wonder how hard it would be to modify a M.2 SSD in the same way. It would be crazy as this will bypass the sata bandwidth limits and maybe improve long term write speed by more than 10x

[csijgkj]

17:35 your device has two 2Tbit MT29F2T08GELCEJ4:C chips, but in "Flash select" window of MPTool we see "1Tbit MT29F1T08GBLCE". And you could write down new firmware anyway. How come? I tried to repeat your experiment ( on another SSD though - SM2259XT2 Micron 96L(B27B) TLC, 512 Gbit per chip, my device has 4 of such chips ) and I always get an error (Compare Flash Fail (17)
(0x17): FlashID is not matched with FlashDB
Selected FlashID = EC, 1E, D9, BF, 88, CC).
I tried all available options. Could you please give an idea what is wrong?

[costea.]

It’s also interesting to disable slc disk caching. then recording to flash will be faster than 50 MB/s, because there will be no compression and amplification of recording

[BrunoSantosL]

Gabriel tudo bem, possuo um HDD 2TB seagate. Sem querer liguei ele no meu, Cooler master Haf Xb Evo. Que possui bainhas hot swap que usa de alimentação um cabo molex 4 pinos. Quando fui fazer uma limpeza nele acabei colocando um molex de fan (com somente 2 pinos) ficando molex 4 pinos - molex (fan) 2 pinos e o hot swap. Depois disso o HD não gira.
Mas aparece no Gerenciado de dispositivos. Tem salvação ;-; não foi a primeira vez que me aconteceu isso perdi um hdd de 1TB mas não tinha certeza se foi isso. Agora eu tenho.

[ygorgabriell]

Isso dai tem como fazer em pendrive tambem?

[micro]

Cool video bro! Could TLC be converted to MLC?

[rdk_dm]

Great video. Can you do that with NVMe SSD? Or TLC?

[Coluchiy]

Do you tested SLC SSD in deleting big files?
ixbt, QLC->SLC for Leven JS300SSD240GB: "After initializing and partitioning the disk, everything is fine at first. But as soon as you write something large to the disk and delete it (for example, do the CrystalDiskMark test), the disk goes into a stopper, goes into itself, so to speak, and you can bring it back to normal only by reconnecting the power. Maybe he is trying to execute the trim command in slc mode and freezes?
In short, I upgraded it back to 240 GB.
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