PC Gamers: Are You Planning on Upgrading your SSD's/HDDs?

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JEMC said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
Due to my old PC's death, I must replace it earlier than I hoped, so I'm building a cheap temporary upgrade. Hence I'll stick to HDD's for now, and when SSD's with large capacity will be cheaper, and the tech will allow a larger number of rewrites before failure, I'll add to my next major upgrade a SSD too, using it for the things that it can improve the most, while HDD storage will be for everything that doesn't need the largest possible boost.

As long as you stick with TLC drives, you shouldn't have troubles with the endurance or life span of any modern SSD. Most 1TB drives with TLC memory last the equivalent of writing 300TB in them. Will you fill the drive so many times before you upgrade a gain?

That said, stay away from the drives fitted with QLC memory.

Endurances from:
SLC > MLC
MLC > TLC
TLC > QLC

All took a hit.

But drive sizes increased, which meant you were able to write more overall data before failure.

QLC will reach a point where it will be a better option than TLC, it will just take some time... But for low-latency, absolute best reliability and performance, SLC is where it is at, sadly they aren't really produced anymore.
Samsung still makes MLC drives though which are the fastest on the market.