• Avid Amoeba
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    28 days ago

    That’s for the worst case scenario. In larger sizes the QLC models have higher write endurance than the TLC ones. Also 300 writes is pretty typical for 500GB TLC drives. Not saying it’s great but it’s been the norm for this size for years.

    AFAIK, there is no need for dedicated SLC cache. They can run multi-level flash as single-level and as a result they can configure how much of the QLC is used as “SLC” cache. And yeah, there’s probably plenty.