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2TB Team Group MP44L M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 TLC Internal SSD Expired

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TEAMGROUP Inc via Amazon has 2TB Team Group MP44L M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 Internal Solid State Drive (TM8FPK002T0C101) on sale for $71.99. Shipping is free.

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Product Details (specs pdf):
  • M.2 2280 form factor
  • SLC Caching
  • PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4 interface
  • Phison E21T Controller
  • 176-Layer Micron TLC Flash
  • Max Sequential Read/Write: Up to 4800/4400 MBps
  • 4KB Random Read/Write: Up to 525,000/550,000 IOPS
  • Terabytes Written (TBW): 1200TB
  • MTBF: 1,500,000 hours
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TeamGroup Inc. via Amazon [amazon.com] has 2TB TeamGroup MP44L SLC Cache NVMe 1.4 PCIe Gen 4x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive SSD (TM8FPK002T0C101) on sale for $71.99. Shipping is free.
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Model: TEAMGROUP MP44L 2TB SLC Cache NVMe 1.4 PCIe Gen 4x4 M.2 2280 Laptop&Desktop SSD (R/W Speed up to 4,800/4,400MB/s) TM8FPK002T0C101

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Just to expand a bit on your ranking:

SLC = 1 bit per cell; enterprise grade (100,000 cycles) and therefore very fast but very expensive for the amount of storage

MLC = 2 bits per cell; still very fast but offered in larger capacities and cheaper than SLC, though somewhat less reliable (10,000 cycles); early consumer SSDs were MLC and even most power users would be hard pressed to wear out one of these drives without exposing it to dirty voltage and/or constant read/writes such as 24/7 surveillance recording

TLC = 3 bits per cell; dominant consumer drive; less reliable (3,000 cycles) and slower than SLC or MLC, but offers even larger capacities at a much more reasonable price point

QLC = 4 bits per cell; slowest and cheapest of consumer grade drives; reliability is significantly lower than other technologies (1,000 cycles), however, this is somewhat offset with the use of 3D architecture and the larger capacities as you won't really start "wearing" the drive until you fill it over 50%

3D NAND - bits can be stored on a cell both horizontally and vertically which decreases their sensitivity to voltage differences and decreases errors, while also allowing for higher capacities and lower power consumption.

For reference, a "cycle" is a "program/erase" cycle, which means data is written to a cell, the cell is erased, and then rewritten.

To answer the poster's question: DRAM is a separate chip built into the SSD which functions sort of like the RAM in your PC. It stores data temporarily to increase access speeds to it, but then that data is lost when the power is turned off.

MLC/TLC/QLC drives with "SLC Cache" mean that there is a portion of the drive's storage that is ear-marked to function like SLC up to a point; frequently accessed data is written to this space to increase access speeds, but as the drive becomes full, this space stops functioning as a cache and reverts to normal MLC/TLC/QLC storage. The benefit to this method is that the data remains in storage on these cells even after power is removed. The downside is that this cache disappears as the drive becomes full, which isn't a problem for DRAM.
It is totally fine. Unless you know why you'd need a faster one, you don't

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09-16-2023 at 10:50 AM.
09-16-2023 at 10:50 AM.
Quote from PhilipJfry92 :
Oh shut up, there will be zero real world performance differences between this drive and 990P or SN850X as a boot drive. There is barely even a difference between a SSD & NVME in normal PC use. The Digital Foundry's PS5 tests was hilarious, where an unqualified drive with 1/2 the recommended r/w speed performed nearly identical to a 5000-7000 NVME. Unless you are doing massive read/writes daily you will never ever notice. If you are doing this type of work you're looking at Enterprise High-endurance NVMEs not $60 m.2s anyway.

Yes, exactly, thank you. People think, o it's not "name brand" and just assume it sucks. Most people will buy it, save a few bucks and never look back. They will enjoy it. I have built 20+ PC's for family and friends and not one has had issues with cheaper drives. There is a reason the higher end drives cost more, If it makes you feel better, buy them, you know why you need it or not. More cheaper drives for the rest of us.
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09-16-2023 at 05:41 PM.
09-16-2023 at 05:41 PM.
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NVMe drives with HMB are usually an adequate substitute for DRAM. Virtually all modern consumer drives have a pSLC cache, of one form or another. None are true SLC anymore.
not even WD black 850 or samsung 990 pro or solidigm pro?
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09-16-2023 at 07:14 PM.
09-16-2023 at 07:14 PM.
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not even WD black 850 or samsung 990 pro or solidigm pro?
Assuming you're asking about SLC NAND (not to be confused with a pSLC cache), no. There are no consumer SSDs on the market that use SLC NAND, nor have there been for many years. Even MLC drives are long gone. The best you can currently hope for is TLC but don't fret over it. TLC and even QLC are plenty adequate for most people. The average user isn't going to come close to exhausting the endurance of even a QLC drive, during its useful lifetime. For some uses (like large writes) the performance penalties can be a concern but the pSLC cache helps offset it, to a point. IMO, people tend to quibble too much over the wrong aspects of an SSD. Many greatly overestimate their needs.
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