Triple-level cell is a solid-state storage architecture where each physical memory cell holds eight distinct voltage states to represent three bits of data. This increases data density and lowers cost per gigabyte compared to single or multi-level cells, but requires more precise error correction and typically suffers from lower write endurance.
We swapped the enterprise drives from TLC to MLC because the constant database writes were chewing through the endurance limits.
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- triple-level cell
Related terms
MLC
Multi-level cell, a solid-state flash memory architecture that stores more than one bit of data per memory cell.
Flash memory
An electronic non-volatile computer storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.
SSD
A solid-state drive is a storage device that uses flash memory instead of spinning magnetic platters.