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Samsung Announces Production of 1-4 TB Consumer 3D QLC NAND SSDs

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-fast-cheap dept.

takyon writes:

Samsung is about to make 4TB SSDs and mobile storage cheaper

A couple of years ago, Samsung launched its first 4TB solid state drives, which might as well not have existed given their $1,499 asking price. Today, the company announces the commencement of mass production of a more — though it's too early to know exactly how much more — affordable variant with its 4TB QLC SSDs. The knock on QLC NAND storage has traditionally been that it sacrifices speed for an increased density, however Samsung promises the same 540MBps read and 520MBps write speeds for its new SSDs as it offers on its existing SATA SSD drives.

Describing this new family of storage drives, which will also include 1TB and 2TB variants, as consumer class, Samsung will obviously aim to price them at a level where quibbles about performance will be overwhelmed by the sheer advantage of having terabytes of space. Any concerns about the reliability of these drives should also be allayed by the three-year warranty promised by Samsung. The launch of the first drives built around these new storage chips is slated for later this year.

What's the endurance of QLC NAND again?

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:36AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 08 2018, @04:36AM (#718653) Journal
    It would be insane for a company to insure customer data without writing into the contract that the customer is doing appropriate due diligence protecting that data, such as back ups, plans for equipment downtime, compliance with various data protection laws and standards, protection against employee malfeasance, and of course, some means to verify that the customer is upholding their side of the deal.

    What it does mean is that they'll lose money very rapidly if their drives have a high failure rate over the warrantee period. At a 5% failure rate per month, for example, two years in they would expect to replace more drives than they originally sold.