The cutting-edge drives "will herald a massive move to terabyte-SSDs," it said.

When Samsung unveiled its first-ever 1-terabit flash chip, it promised that massive SSD storage devices would soon follow. As promised, it's now producing 4TB SSDs, and best of all, these drives are not for cloud companies or enterprises. "Samsung's new 4-bit SATA SSD will herald a massive move to terabyte-SSDs for consumers," said executive VP of memory sales Jaesoo Han.

The SSDs are the "industry's first" to use 4-bit V-NAND memory tech. The so-called QLC quad-level cells pack more memory into the same space as previous 3-bit cells, while operating at the same speeds. As a result, the new 4TB 2.5-inch SATA-based SSDs read and write data at 540 MB/s and 520 MB/s, respectively -- fast enough to capture and playback RAW 4K video files.

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It will be interesting to see what price these will be going for.

 

As the article says, customers can get a 4TB hard drive on Amazon for about $100 but Samsung's 860 EVO 4TB SSD drive will cost you about 10 times that much.

 

Hope the technology can lower the cost, especially for the 1 & 2 TB SSD's they are planning to release. 

Yes, $1,000/- for a SSD is a bit too steep for ordinary home use

18 minutes ago, ravip said:

Yes, $1,000/- for a SSD is a bit too steep for ordinary home use

I got a 2 TB ssd m2 from samsung in my computer and yes its quite expensive. But not only ordinary home use.