SLC SSD Options

[LarryMason1337]

I am struggling trying to read between the lines of all the SSDs on the market. How do I know if one is full SLC or if they are MLC or TLC using an SLC cache? If they are using a cache; how can I tell how much memory the cache provides of SLC before swapping?

 

Thanks

[TrigrH]

no drives are SLC on the market, most drives are TLC, some are MLC and the latest cheap drives are QLC

[porina]

Some SSDs will work partially in SLC mode as cache. You'd have to dig through reviews where people do writes to see how far that goes before performance drops.

 

Alternatively if you just need highest performance SSD, get Optane.

[RejZoR]

Intel Optane is basically SLC of the new age. It has the lowest latency, highest writes and high bandwidth. They also have high price, just like SLC. But they aren't aactually SLC, they are entirely new tech that's just better than regular NAND.

[LarryMason1337]

I plan to be doing a lot of video capturing and editing. So is Optane the best for speed prolly then? (like 4 hours a day of recording)

[badreg]

28 minutes ago, LarryMason1337 said:

I plan to be doing a lot of video capturing and editing. So is Optane the best for speed prolly then? (like 4 hours a day of recording)

Standard consumer TLC drives are plenty for your use case. A 1TB 970 Evo (TLC) will sustain write speeds of 1,350MB/s indefinitely, while a 1TB 970 Pro (MLC) will do double that at 2,700MB/s.

 

The only use case where SLC or Optane actually makes sense as storage is when you're hitting the drive with 100,000 IOPS in random read/writes. Unless you're running a data center, you're not doing that.

[bustedrogue]

I mean if you really need a slc ssd, there is a few enterprise level ssd to buy on the market rn. its like around $40 for a 64gb drive