Phison S10: Toshiba MLC And TLC Versus Micron L95B MLC

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Phison offered to let us test its S10 controller with three flash types that will ship in 2015: Toshiba's A19 TLC, 15nm MLC and Micron L95B 16nm MLC.

Sequential Read

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The charts are a little different today. Instead of ordering the results from highest to lowest performance, we grouped them by capacity. We have three capacities and three different types of flash.

The Toshiba A19 TLC 480GB drive gave us an odd result. But aside from that one score, the rest of the drives finish where we expect them to.

S10-controlled retail products like the Corsair Neutron XT, Kingston HyperX Savage and Patriot Inferno all deliver exceptional sequential read performance. The three examples lead our charts in this test with more than 560 MB/s, the upper limit of SATA 6Gb/s.

Chris Ramseyer
Chris Ramseyer
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Chris Ramseyer was a senior contributing editor for Tom's Hardware. He tested and reviewed consumer storage.