Toshiba TR200 review: Another slow TLC SSD
from PC world 11 October indexed on 11 October 2017 16:01The whole idea behind Triple-Level Cell (3-bit/TLC) NAND is to put more stuff into less space for less cash. It's succeeded at the former, but the less cash thing hasn't really worked out. TLC drives are available in larger capacities (up to 2TB), but are marginally cheaper than MLC drives at best. But the biggest issue has been speed. When TLC drives were first introduced, sustained write performance on some was slower than a hard drive's, and not a particularly fast hard drive. Thankfully, advanced caching and tiering with faster SLC and MLC (actually TLC treated as that) has largely remedied that. Sadly, the cure hasn't benefited Toshiba's new TR200. Not since the Toshiba/OCZ Trion 100 have we seen a drive this slow with large data sets, writing them slower than most hard drives. And this from a company that's the OEM for NVMe SSDs such as the XG5, which reads at over 3GBps and writes at over 2GBps. Go figure. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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