Comments on: Silicon Motion Announces SM2256 — World’s First 6Gb/s SSD Controller Supporting TLC NAND

By: ssdrocks

ssdrocks — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:44:00 +0000

In reply to renosablast. How about Phison S10 controller that supports TLC? didn't see any performance number but i believe they showed TLC support in S10 controller on their webpage few months ago as well using their own firmware

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:31:00 +0000

In reply to Les@TheSSDReview. Memoright annouced a TLC based ssd some time ago but its suppost to use older generation 19nm Toshiba (19x26nm). Its possible, that toshiba binned the newer A19 very tightly or the quality went up to a point, that its suitable for ssds.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:58:00 +0000

In reply to Benjamin Hojnik. I don't know where you might have read that but we wouldn't be seeing this from Toshiba unless it was beyond reproach IMO.

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 07:23:00 +0000

Hopefully quality of TLC nand improves (i’ve read somewhere that latest toshiba A19 TLC is still not suitable for ssds — only capable of couple of hundres p/e) otherwise we won’t see TLC based drives anytime soon.

By: Dansolo

Dansolo — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:29:00 +0000

In reply to renosablast.

Irrelevent. The title of the article is a lie. Not sure if Scott thought such a lie (which makes for a more exciting title -world’s first, rather than world’s second) would attract more views to his article or if he doesn’t realize that a true statement doesn’t remain a true statement when you remove half of it.

True statement: I am the most knowledgable user of nickname Dansolo on this site

Scott statement: I am the most knowledgable user on this site

A better title to this article would be “Better late than never? Silicon Motion jumps on TLC NAND bandwagon with SM2256 controller.” Or perhaps, “Did anyone even ask for this? Silicon Motion second to support awful TLC NAND.”