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

[Cyran]

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

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.

The only thing you got to be careful with is that while MLC usually means 2-bit but since M actually stand for muti it has been used instead of TLC in spec sheets.  I don't think I seen any cases yet of it being used instead of QLC.

For example you will see the 970 EVO listed as Samsung 64L V-NAND 3-bit MLC.  Which is actually TLC (3-bit).  Samsung Pro series is 2-bit (what most people consider MLC).