Transcend SuperMLC technology trumpeted as SLC alternative

[HEXUS]

Offers cost effective yet "nearly equivalent performance to SLC NAND flash".

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[3dcandy]

Has a tradeoff in terms of half the capacity? I'd say that's pretty much a real problem there people

[watercooled]

That's the difference between SLC and MLC though, always has been - you trade-off speed/endurance and capacity.

[Kumagoro]

Isn't this what others have been doing for the last couple of years as in a write cache.

[watercooled]

Yeah just this is a full drive used that way, as I understand it. I'd be interested to know if there are any significant differences at a low level between this psuedo-SLC and actual SLC. It could just be that 'true' SLC goes through a different validation process and is lower-volume and therefore maybe more expensive?

[Kumagoro]

I think I would prefer a drive which does this but but then moves the most used long term data onto the other levels of the cell. TLC has better read rates as far as I know.

A bit like an sshd in a way.