I'm wondering if the 512 and 1 TB drives that Apple uses in the retina MBP series are good flash? Apparently last year's 6s uses TLC, so this got me wondering.
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Do the retina MBPs (2012-2015) have MLC or TLC flash drives?
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the MBP's use MLC chips.. Pre Mid 2015 they used Toshiba MLC NAND for I think just the 128GB drive, and Samsung for the larger.
Now where it gets interesting, the insane nearly 2GB/s updated SSD in the Mid 2015, if you look up tear down pics, and look up the chip part numbers, they are the same chips that are on the new Samsung 950 Pro which didn't come out til 6 months later. So My guess is the Mid 2015 basically has an Samsung 950 Pro M.2 PCI-E SSD
Now where it gets interesting, the insane nearly 2GB/s updated SSD in the Mid 2015, if you look up tear down pics, and look up the chip part numbers, they are the same chips that are on the new Samsung 950 Pro which didn't come out til 6 months later. So My guess is the Mid 2015 basically has an Samsung 950 Pro M.2 PCI-E SSD
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