By Susan Riley. There seems to be a lot of interest in SSD's lately. With all the different product offerings out there it is hard for the user to fully understand what type of product they need. There is the MLC variety that is high performance, higher capacity but lower endurance based on the number of write cycles and then there is the more expensive, smaller capacity SLC offerings that delivers higher performance and higher endurance levels.  What to choose? MLC is typically used in consumer applications while SLC has developed in the enterprise space.  The suppliers range in experience from drive suppliers to memory suppliers to smaller start up companies that put components on a PCBA and sell it as solid state.  We segment the solutions into 4 categories, those that are externally attached (highest latency), "drive like" solutions, those that install on the PCIe bus and those that fit on the memory bus (lowest latency).

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