their modern iterations hit the streets back in
’07 or so. If you’re reading this and you’re not
running one, drop this magazine on the bathroom floor and run—don’t walk—to the store to
buy one. Since, frankly, SSDs have been performance-gated by the SATA 6Gb/s connection for
some time now, we decided to go for capacity
with a pair of a pair of 1TB Samsung EVO drives
in RAID 0. That gives each machine 2TB of super-wicked-fast SSD, but without the capacity
limits that usually have us throwing out ISO and
MPEG files well before they deser ve to be tossed
overboard.
Though it’s not SLC or even MLC NAND, Samsung gets around the performance limits with
its TLC by buffering writes to a 36GB SLC NAND
buffer. And yes, we know some will fear TLC’s
lower life span but honestly, you will not wear
out the TLC memory in an SSD anytime before
you pull it from your system and laugh the same
way you would at an 80GB hard drive. “What, a
1TB SSD? I have a 10TB USB flash drive!
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