Comments on: Silicon Motion Displays SM2246EN SSD Controller In The Wrong Light – Flash Memory Summit 2013 Update

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:17:00 +0000

They use a data length of 4MB on ATTO benchmark. That’s way too small for a SSD. I think that would explain the poor result.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:52:00 +0000

In reply to Anonomyous. If you were referring to the benchmark results, I am only passing on what I was told by Silicon Motion.

By: Anonomyous

Anonomyous — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 01:10:00 +0000

those are both TLC drives one is a 256gb and the other a 128GB

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:11:00 +0000

In reply to Poster. Great point.

By: Poster

Poster — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:07:00 +0000

They weren’t shooting for performance by choosing TLC… They were shooting for consumer use and EXTREMELY low power.

TLC SSDs have so much capacity, that they will take forever for a consumer to program/erase the maximum number of program/erase cycles. Their goal was clearly to make a cheap ass SSD that took little power and could still run the normal everyday tasks of a consumer hard drive.