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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Sep 5, 2022
Sep 5, 2022 2:59 AM
2TB PNY XLR8 CS3030 M.2 PCIe NVMe Gen3 x4 Solid State Drive
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By Zhiye Liu published June 03, 2021
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I don't think QLC is a good choice even for $130.
The original 3300TBW has probably used Toshiba's TLC NAND as this is the only NAND in the market that has such good TBW and this is good for the usage like NAS cache.
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By Zhiye Liu published June 03, 2021
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By Zhiye Liu published June 03, 2021
Buyers beware
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If PNY really changed their NAND without telling anyone that'd be a big deal, going from TLC to QLC is a very big change and would involve a lot of firmware work and requalification work. At that point it's effectively a brand new drive so it's pretty shady of them to keep the same model name.
It'd be easy for them to maintain their performance with a NAND change due to the fact that they have DRAM onboard which means their fresh out of box performance should be, relatively, unaffected by the NAND but your sustained performance is going to take a hit.
Having said that, if there wasn't an "original" XLR8 to compare against, and shady business practices aside, this is still a very good deal for a 2TB drive from a "known" brand.
I don't think QLC is a good choice even for $130.
The original 3300TBW has probably used Toshiba's TLC NAND as this is the only NAND in the market that has such good TBW and this is good for the usage like NAS cache.
Better specs, 1.8M TBW and reads at 5,000, almost as good as my Samsung 980 PRO but I paid about $240 for that back in Dec. 2020.
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