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The point is to run TLC drives. SLC drives of that capacity are too expensive and are thus not recommended.
What's TLC and SLC in this context?
- SLC -> Single-Level Cell, i.e. 1 bit per cell
- MLC -> Multi-Level Cell, i.e. 2 bits per cell
- TLC -> Triple-Level Cell, i.e. 3 bits per cell
- QLC -> Quad-Level Cell, i.e. 4 bits per cell
The more bits per cell you store, the more dense and therefore cheaper your flash chips can be for a give capacity. The downside is that it is slower and less reliable since you have to be able to write and read exponentially more voltage states per cell, e.g. 2 states for SLC, 4 states for MLC, 8 states for TLC, etc.
Careful with this- since MLC just means multi, I've seen drives marketed as "3-bit MLC", i.e. TLC
Thank you!
NAND interfaces. From what I understand of it, it determines how efficiently you can pack storage into an SSD, but at the cost of some reliability. SLC, MLC and TLC are all considered pretty reliable. QLC, being a newer interface, is not quite as stable