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thegamer298

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I want a new SSD with a capacity of around 250GB.

My choices for the moment are:
1. Samsung 840 EVO 250GB
2. Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB

I want to know which one is better in terms of longevity.
 
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fricklesmn

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While your link was an interesting read and a wake-up call to me about TLC flash modules, there is a paragraph there which pretty much washes out your comment

"TLC NAND squeezes an extra bit into each flash cell, so it's more prone to wear than the MLC alternative. That puts the Samsung 840 Series at a theoretical disadvantage versus its MLC competition, and this relative weakness has been reflected in the experiment's results already. The 840 Series has registered far more reallocated sectors—bad blocks of flash that have been replaced—than any of the MLC-based drives. It was also the only drive to stumble in our first retention test after 300TB of writes. (That's not to say that the 840 Series flunked this class; 300TB is well beyond what the average consumer is likely to write to any SSD during its lifetime.)"
 
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