Here's one good reason you may want to 'downgrade' your SSD and lose capacity in the process — cheap QLC SSD can be transformed into expensive SLC to improve endurance but it's not for the fainthearted

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We love crazy tech projects here at TechRadar Pro - Some of our recent favorites include an enthusiast getting ChatGPT to run on a NAS, and the person who transformed AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor into a storage device with read-write speeds to rival some of the best SSDs.

The latest idea to cross our desks comes from Gabriel Ferraz, a computer engineer and TechPowerUp's SSD database maintainer, who turned a 512GB QLC SATA III SSD into a 120GB SLC one.