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SLC isn't really in the discussion because of cost. So what you are saying is that life span is not an issue. If it is 75 years in a consumer environment I would imagine it wouldn't be much less in a business environment. Businesses rotate computers about every five years anyway. Even tripping the light fantastic they might, only in rare cases, remove the drive and reuse it when they rotate out the computer.<br />
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So everyone figures TLC drives would so far outlive a computer what's the point? Why spend the money? <br />
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Even their &quot;Professional&quot; series (designed for business) is now TLC.....
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SLC isn't really in the discussion because of cost. So what you are saying is that life span is not an issue. If it is 75 years in a consumer environment I would imagine it wouldn't be much less in a business environment. Businesses rotate computers about every five years anyway. Even tripping the light fantastic they might, only in rare cases, remove the drive and reuse it when they rotate out the computer.

So everyone figures TLC drives would so far outlive a computer what's the point? Why spend the money?

Even their "Professional" series (designed for business) is now TLC.....

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I just noticed Intel's latest consumer SSDs are TLC. Up until this series all their consumer SSDs have been MLC. I have always heard that MLC is faster and more reliable. Has something shown up on the horizon that now makes TLC a better choice then MLC?
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I just noticed Intel's latest consumer SSDs are TLC. Up until this series all their consumer SSDs have been MLC. I have always heard that MLC is faster and more reliable. Has something shown up on the horizon that now makes TLC a better choice then MLC?

MLC vs TLC

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.