MLC is usually higher, but even drives that still use MLC, (like the 960 PRO) have reduced their warranties by half of what they used to be (now 5 years instead of 10).
Drives like the Western Digital 3D, Intel 545s, and Crucial MX500 that use modern 3D NAND all come with 5 years warranty too. In fact, most people will replace these current gen drives as being obsolete long before bricking it from writes. SATA is tapped out performance wise, people have to move to PCIe drives now to get performance.
Well in that case If I need to buy another SSD and if its TLC, then I would get 2TB to be on the safe side.
@whm1974
The problem there however will be price. Still, prices as they are today, I see almost absolutely no reason not to go with an M2 NVMe over a SATA drive, as the worst that can happen (referencing the 960EVO) is that, under some tasks, the NVMe drive performs 'as bad' as a SATA. For the rest of it, the NVMe drive is simply better and faster in almost all regards. Almost same price, way smaller, no cables, etc (although MUCH hotter, bear in mind).
Makes sense now according to what UsandThem said that drive prices skyrocket so much as capacity goes up, as they're exponentially better (not just more capacity).
@UsandThem
That said it is clear to me now a low capacity (250GB) MLC is the way to go and just as I had been thinking, the Kingston KC1000 should be the undebatable king. I am however still in doubt as to how well (or badly) does said KC1000 fare against the newer -WD Black/Sandisk Extreme Pro- on 500TB and 1TB capacities.
Problem is there's, good or not, almost no reviews at all on the Kingston KC1000, it's like it almost does not exist, which does really surprise me as I find it to be one of the very best NVMe drives out there (
do you share this opinion? What do you think of it?).
I've been sold (through websearching, informing myself and reading) into thinking the -WD Black / Sandisk Extreme Pro- is the best drive out there, even better than the 960EVO/970EVO but then again and here goes my last and simple question:
if you can get the very same capacity at the very same price, and turn it into MLC, shouldn't it simply be better? (despite the drive having slower speeds which is the sole and only drawback [is this correct?], thing that I do not care much about as we're already talking beyond 2000MBps overkill).