Tuesday, July 12th 2016

Samsung Intros Massive 4TB Variant of the SSD 850 EVO

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btarunr
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Samsung introduced a massive 4 terabyte variant of its popular SSD 850 EVO. The drive takes advantage of the company's latest 48-layer 3D V-NAND flash memory, and uses eight 2 Tb stacks driven by the company's existing S4LP052X01-8030 triple-core controller. The drive offers sequential transfer speeds of up to 540 MB/s reads, with up to 520 MB/s writes; up to 98,000 IOPS sequential reads, with up to 90,000 IOPS sequential writes. It's currently only offered in the 2.5-inch form-factor, with SATA 6 Gb/s interface. Backed by a 5-year warranty, the Samsung 850 EVO 4 TB is priced at US $1,499.

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26 Comments on Samsung Intros Massive 4TB Variant of the SSD 850 EVO

#2
Chaitanya
Prima.VeraAuch the price!!
Check Anandtechs review, does look good though at .36$/GB it does get expensive.
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#3
laszlo
too bad the point is not between nine's:(
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#5
qubit
Overclocked quantum bit
I've just nerded out to this. Let's just say I want one. :D
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#6
techy1
personA: "I just spent 3000$ to get 8TB of storage for my videos, RAW pictures, games etc - finnaly enough space for everything"
personB: "why you just did not buy a 8TB HDD for 200$ to store those files?"
personA: "emmm.... uhhh..... your mom is ugly"
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#7
Legacy-ZA
Sure Samsung! Sounds fantastic, let me just go and get my money; *Disclaimer* I might have to rob your CEO first though... *sigh* :P

Saw an article earlier this year where Mushkin was it? Offered a 4TB for $500. I don't know how the drive will compare against the Samsung though.
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#8
R-T-B
Legacy-ZAI don't know how the drive will compare against the Samsung though.
They fail to best it on pretty much all fronts save capacity. That said, they are a lot cheaper.
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#9
PP Mguire
Legacy-ZASure Samsung! Sounds fantastic, let me just go and get my money; *Disclaimer* I might have to rob your CEO first though... *sigh* :p

Saw an article earlier this year where Mushkin was it? Offered a 4TB for $500. I don't know how the drive will compare against the Samsung though.
Was just thinking this myself, where the hell is it?
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#10
Prima.Vera
PP MguireWas just thinking this myself, where the hell is it?
Vaporware
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#14
hellrazor
I get the feeling that VHS is gonna win out against Betamax on this one.
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#15
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
wont be getting anytime soon
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#16
Prima.Vera
Either way, the HDD end is near. In 10 years, they will be next to floppies, CD drives , etc
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#17
Jetster
In 6 months it will be half price
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#18
R-T-B
Prima.VeraEither way, the HDD end is near. In 10 years, they will be next to floppies, CD drives , etc
That's a fact. The HDD companies have failed to deliver HAMR to increase storage density advantage, and there's no doubt even if they ever deliver that, they won't last but maybe a year or two more.
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#19
RejZoR
hojnikbI bet @RejZoR has a massive hard on seeing this :)
It's so massive it flipped over the desk XD To be quite honest, I don't really feel the urge to own more than 2TB. 1TB was a bit small since I had 2TB HDD already, but 4TB, while sounds tempting, I don't really need that. I have a 2TB portable HDD for very cold data like movies and Windows ISO images and I can watch that stuff on TV directly by plugging it into it. There is no way I'll ever have a spinning drive in my PC, that I'm absolutely certain. Not as primary and not as secondary drive.
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#20
PP Mguire
Prima.VeraVaporware
I don't think so. I just think they announced it way too early or they had troubles with it.
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#22
xorbe
omg why so expensive. 850 EVO is TLC iirc.
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#23
PP Mguire
xorbeomg why so expensive. 850 EVO is TLC iirc.
No competition. They can price what they want.
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#24
syrup
Have a look at the price for the 2TB, which basically stopped falling at the start of the year then crept back up in the past few months:

camelcamelcamel.com/Samsung-850-EVO-2-5-Inch-MZ-75E2T0B/product/B010QD6W9I

Actually, for most of the Samsung range, the trend we saw in 2015 hasn't extended into 2016, which raises some doubts whether future drops in $/GB are going to happen as quickly as people expect.
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#25
xvi
I've been wanting to replace the mechanical drives in my laptop with inexpensive SSDs, but the price really isn't even coming close. Right now, I'm just keeping critical data off them and using them as-is.

I thought SSDs were supposed to get cheap soon. (Albeit low performance SSDs, but still)
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