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Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by eimrine on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:43AM (#39602130)
Totally not, enshittification ate SLC.
Re:Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with th... by wtallis on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:00PM (#39607778)
SLC makes sense for almost zero use cases, even in a data center. It's simply the wrong tradeoff between capacity and performance. It's not enshittification that you can now have a cheap multi-TB SSD to hold a large collection of movies and games and still have an SLC cache for the small portion of your data that isn't mostly static.