Samsung Starts Mass Production of Industry’s First 4-Bit Consumer SSD

Megalith

Megalith

24-bit/48kHz
Staff member
Joined
Aug 20, 2006
Messages
13,000
Samsung has begun producing a new 4TB QLC SSD featuring performance levels on par with 3-bit SATA SSDs, offering 540MB/s read speed and 520MB/s write speed. Although there is no indication of pricing, company executives suggest the era of cheap, plentiful multi-terabyte SSDs may be just around the corner.

“Samsung’s new 4-bit SATA SSD will herald a massive move to terabyte-SSDs for consumers,” said Jaesoo Han, executive vice president of memory sales & marketing at Samsung Electronics. “As we expand our lineup across consumer segments and to the enterprise, 4-bit terabyte-SSD products will rapidly spread throughout the entire market.”
 
Your title need correcting. Intel released the first 4-bit consumer SSD last week (512GB, 1TB, 2TB). Samsung claim is they are starting production of the first 4TB QLC SSD.

I'm still waiting to replace my 1TB HDD with a $100 or less 1TB SSD, these new QLC drives should help.
 
Intel is supposed to be launching a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD for $200 SRP.

It's only 1800MB/s read and write, but (if and) when that releases, that's a game changer.

A couple of those in RAID and you can have a monster of a machine with lots of very fast storage in a tiny space. Especially with so many quality ITX options these days.
 
Dermen said:
Your title need correcting. Intel released the first 4-bit consumer SSD last week (512GB, 1TB, 2TB). Samsung claim is they are starting production of the first 4TB QLC SSD.

I'm still waiting to replace my 1TB HDD with a $100 or less 1TB SSD, these new QLC drives should help.
Click to expand...
Not only did Intel release it, it's actually for sale and one can buy it.

But Samsung is the big dog so it is noteworthy that they're scaling up production. TLC -> QLC only yields a savings of ~25%, but QLC + 96L should yield a savings of approximately 50% from current prices, so that's where it will get interesting.
 
Anyone else remember dreaming of owning $750 512GB SATA3 SSDs back in the Sandy Bridge era?

Decent 2TB models are now around $330-400.

Looking forward to 4TB models falling into that price spectrum!
 
Last edited:
I'll believe "cheap" SSD at large storage capacities when I see it. So far, it's slowly crept from 1/64th the size for 8x the price to 1/4th the size for 2x the price. Still a long way to go till I can replace my 8TB platter drives with an 8TB SSD for the same $200 I bought a 8TB Platter HD for. I'm guessing 2024 at the earliest. 2021, I bet we'll see 8TB SSDs and to get down to the $200 price range 2024.
 
WBurchnall said:
I'll believe "cheap" SSD at large storage capacities when I see it. So far, it's slowly crept from 1/64th the size for 8x the price to 1/4th the size for 2x the price. Still a long way to go till I can replace my 8TB platter drives with an 8TB SSD for the same $200 I bought a 8TB Platter HD for. I'm guessing 2024 at the earliest. 2021, I bet we'll see 8TB SSDs and to get down to the $200 price range 2024.
Click to expand...

I dream of having no HDD's in my HTPC. :(
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Intel is supposed to be launching a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD for $200 SRP.

It's only 1800MB/s read and write, but (if and) when that releases, that's a game changer.

A couple of those in RAID and you can have a monster of a machine with lots of very fast storage in a tiny space. Especially with so many quality ITX options these days.
Click to expand...

When will these be released. I am ready to buy :D
 
If you are storing media for an HTPC good luck. Filesize will keep going up and you will probably never catch up. By the time 8TB SSDs are $200 the HTPC guys will have multiple 32TB HDDs.

WarriorX said:
When will these be released. I am ready to buy :D
Click to expand...
All the reviews and releases I read just said the 512GB would be available at launch and the 1TB and 2TB would be available soon after.
 
WBurchnall said:
I'll believe "cheap" SSD at large storage capacities when I see it. So far, it's slowly crept from 1/64th the size for 8x the price to 1/4th the size for 2x the price. Still a long way to go till I can replace my 8TB platter drives with an 8TB SSD for the same $200 I bought a 8TB Platter HD for. I'm guessing 2024 at the earliest. 2021, I bet we'll see 8TB SSDs and to get down to the $200 price range 2024.
Click to expand...
Yup, can't see SSDs replacing my Adaptec 8805's with 8 x 8TB He8 HGST drives (that run $260 each now) any time soon with SSDs, although I wish it would happen. I have one live and one backup offline but will need to see a lot of data on QLC cold storage retention time before trusting SSDs there, probably a few weeks after I succumb to old age. :(
 
As with many budding technologies, I suspect there has been and will continue to be some attempt to postone this "golden era" as long as possible to reap profits related to both decreasing production costs and releasing minor incremental improvements.
 
Ahh yes, the SSD’s race to the bottom.

Wonder how long it will be before we start getting random bit swaps as a normal occurrence when owning an SSD for longer than a year?

Guess we will find out soon enough.
 
Dermen said:
Your title need correcting. Intel released the first 4-bit consumer SSD last week (512GB, 1TB, 2TB). Samsung claim is they are starting production of the first 4TB QLC SSD.

I'm still waiting to replace my 1TB HDD with a $100 or less 1TB SSD, these new QLC drives should help.
Click to expand...

660p, yep. Not an astounding drive but a good start. With 96-layer 4D NAND coming in 2019 I think a 8TB QLC-based SSD is very realistic.
 
Dermen said:
Your title need correcting. Intel released the first 4-bit consumer SSD last week (512GB, 1TB, 2TB). Samsung claim is they are starting production of the first 4TB QLC SSD.

I'm still waiting to replace my 1TB HDD with a $100 or less 1TB SSD, these new QLC drives should help.
Click to expand...
Micron released the first QLC SSD, not intel
http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=1068052

but i guess thats not consumer as in you and I can buy it
 
Last edited:
At this point I'm more interested in cheap ram than cheap ssds.
 
I'm planning on my next build not having any spinning platters in it. A 4TB SSD would be amazing.
I do have a few NAS systems on my home network that are used for backups, archives, etc. Now, just need a 10GB home network...
 
nutzo said:
Would be nice, but 8TB of SSD's would cost me more then I already spent on my HTPC, including the 8TB of storage, 128GB boot SSD, tuner card, etc.
Click to expand...

Realistically probably won't happen for a good 4 to 5 years. :cry:
 
I just picked up two 6 TB HHD HGST Helium drives these are awesome I have like every Steam games installed now I even went over the Data Cap and got a warning from our provider. I put all my Slower loading games on SSD drives but everyone does that I have a Blank 1 TB Samsung just waiting to be filled up someday.
 
Well if Samsung can sell me $100 4TB SSD then I am buying 2 of them! LOL. Can't wait to see these new 4-bit QLC SSD drives come to market and what kind of savings we get out of it!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top