▲ 53 ▼ Please recommend your cheaper, reliable SSDs 2TB+ (4TB ideal) (mander.xyz) submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 42 comments fedilink hide all child comments Title. :)
[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children) SLC -> Single-Level Cell, i.e. 1 bit per cell MLC -> Multi-Level Cell, i.e. 2 bits per cell TLC -> Triple-Level Cell, i.e. 3 bits per cell QLC -> Quad-Level Cell, i.e. 4 bits per cell The more bits per cell you store, the more dense and therefore cheaper your flash chips can be for a give capacity. The downside is that it is slower and less reliable since you have to be able to write and read exponentially more voltage states per cell, e.g. 2 states for SLC, 4 states for MLC, 8 states for TLC, etc. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Careful with this- since MLC just means multi, I've seen drives marketed as "3-bit MLC", i.e. TLC permalink fedilink source parent [+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [+] rockhandle@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children) SLC -> Single-Level Cell, i.e. 1 bit per cell MLC -> Multi-Level Cell, i.e. 2 bits per cell TLC -> Triple-Level Cell, i.e. 3 bits per cell QLC -> Quad-Level Cell, i.e. 4 bits per cell The more bits per cell you store, the more dense and therefore cheaper your flash chips can be for a give capacity. The downside is that it is slower and less reliable since you have to be able to write and read exponentially more voltage states per cell, e.g. 2 states for SLC, 4 states for MLC, 8 states for TLC, etc. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Careful with this- since MLC just means multi, I've seen drives marketed as "3-bit MLC", i.e. TLC permalink fedilink source parent [+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Careful with this- since MLC just means multi, I've seen drives marketed as "3-bit MLC", i.e. TLC permalink fedilink source parent
[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent