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Captain_Yuri said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Yeah, and I thought WD Red weren't shingled...

What you posted is true today, but will that still be true in the future?

That's true and it could always happen for really anything but until that becomes a reality, I'll take their word for it cause otherwise what else we supposed to do? Not buy anything?

Certainly not.

My fear is more that SSDs are slowly hitting a brick wall with the miniaturization since smaller gates and higher amounts of states for the cells drastically reduce the life expectancy of the SSD. New techniques may be necessary to get around this, and those never come cheap. I mean, some QLC blocks have a life expectancy of a mere 100 erasures, which is getting ridiculously low now. And yet they are developing PLC now, so 5 layers of states and storage, at which point the number of rewrites for a block might drop to such lows as just 20.

Clearly, Flash is starting to show it's limitations.