delimeat52

Simple. Best knockoff NUC. Intel NUCs are expensive for what they are. What's the best AliExpress / Wish.com / Other dubious quality website NUC that money can buy? Things to look out for: Which has the best features? Looking for you, USB C... Which one is great on a budget, but still has usable life? Which one has a processor that's not from 2016? Which one actually has enough RAM to do anything? 4GB in 2022... Please! Which ones have a storage interface other than Micro SD, eMMC, or *shudder* soldered on flash? Maybe one with M.2 exists? Which ones ship with the OS they have in the description? Is it activated? Dare I ask.... genuine? Are any of these things Windows 11 compliant? I'm sure there's more...

So, apparently PLC SSDs are now going to be a thing. I remember a few years ago when it was supposed to be scary getting a TLC drive because it was going to fail so fast. Do you guys have any way of testing current generation TLC / QLC drives against some older ones to show how far we have or have not come in the last five or so years? I know hard drive benchmarks aren't super high action and there's no RGB, but Anthony does some really great deep dives and I think he'd have good perspective and advice on this!