Samsung Announces QLC SSDs up-to 4 TB
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asder
any word on pricing?
nosirrahx
I wonder if we will see 8TB as the 860 is already up to 4TB.
Kaarme
Will they phase out TLC and replace it entirely with QLC? Samsung has increased the number of production lines, but they might think it's all the same if it's TLC or QLC, since they are nonetheless viewed as less reliable than SLC or MLC (2-bit). Thus customers requiring reliability foremost wouldn't care as they would stick to the enterprise SLC or MLC nonetheless. Those who only want max bang for the buck wouldn't even look at the tech used. Then there are those who'd hesitate, such as myself. I experienced the Samsung 840 EVO TLC disaster personally, after all. I'm not going to jump into QLC head first, that's for sure. However, I'm not sure Samsung cares about this last category.
Silva
Personally, having MLC and knowing how it's working, I'll keep away from QLC.
I might get a TLC drive in the future, but I'm not giving up that much life on the SSD for more space.
MK80
Boavista
What difference does QLC make? Performance wise of course? And i am not asking for specs, just what exactly should be different in a day to day use scenario.
Venix
Ricepudding
https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/2
Samsung 840pro lasted till 2400 TB of data was installed, thats pretty insane if you ask me
I mean, most the endurance tests ive seen run the lifetime of SSD's to be 20 years plus (depending on how much you read and write), so even halfing that and them only lasting 10 years is a crazy long time... One test i found said TLC drives in theory could last up to 100 years as long as no defect or something else happened but most of that would be picked up on arrival. Though most of this depends on how much data you write on it... many tests showing around 1000TB to be a dying point on many drives, Don't know about you but i don't install 10TB worth of stuff a day to worry about such things
tsunami231
tell me when I can get atlest 1 tb ssd for 69.99, which is about the price of 1tb HDD likes the wd blacks, till such time happen I will replace my 7+ year old barracuda with a 1 or 2 tb hdd like the toshiba P300
EspHack
Silva
Venix
RzrTrek
I'm still waiting for an affordable 1TB M.2 drive to be released. I'm thinking $99 would be the sweet spot, but I'm willing to give $149 just to get it a bit sooner.
Silva
Ricepudding
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/endurance-test-of-samsung-850-pro-comes-to-an-end-after-9100tb-of-writes.html
Should of got this i'd last me 1000 years then, i wouldn't have to worry evere
But in all seriousness as long as the drives i use last 10-15 years, i'm fine with that chances are with how space of games and windows works stuff like 512Gb just won't be enough by then... mind you it isn't enough now for more than a boot drive, got my 4TB 850 evo for that which should last me the 1tb has a 2000Gb usage, i'm guessing the 4tb has at least double that... so i guess in maybe 600+ years i might need a new one 😀
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/endurance-test-of-samsung-850-pro-comes-to-an-end-after-9100tb-of-writes.html
Mind you stories like this give me hope... like honestly i think you over think this, if its a boot drive then year its going to be using more than you might need, but as a game drive where files are accessed every second of the day, you might only use the drive a little meaning it will last you more than long enough.... it's a matter of do you want to pay less now for the good size, or splash out a little and it can last longer....tbh MLC might even be total overkill for us average users, i mean anything rated for 2PB is insane unless for some odd reason you're using 200Gbs a day?
Just looked at my drives, did some maths on them my 960 pro 512gb should die in about 320 years with me using around 7.5 terabytes a year... i'm rather terrified about this
Venix
ManofGod
Well, I have almost 4TB total of SSD space in my primary home PC. I am set for a while and that does not even count the 2 x 1TB Hard drives I have installed or the 2TB HD I have sitting in front of me, unused.
Silva
nosirrahx
Venix