<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Jeff Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">


<div><div dir="ltr">This article on an SSD cache problem was in my face today: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2998497/storage/tlc-nand-ssds-the-crippling-problem-storage-makers-dont-advertise.html#tk.nl_pcwbest" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/article/2998497/storage/tlc-nand-ssds-the-crippling-problem-storage-makers-dont-advertise.html#tk.nl_pcwbest</a><br><br>There's some interesting stuff in there..<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's shady. So basically stay away from TLC drives.<br><br></div><div>And sadly, there's also the bait-and-switch that Kingston did, where they switched from synchronous NAND in the early drives (used by reviewers) to cheaper, slower asynchronous NAND in the drives you'd be more likely to buy.<br><br><a href="http://techreport.com/review/26664/alleged-bait-and-switch-tactics-spur-kingston-pny-ssd-boycott">http://techreport.com/review/26664/alleged-bait-and-switch-tactics-spur-kingston-pny-ssd-boycott</a></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chris Irwin<br><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></div></div>
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