Tuesday, July 12th 2016
Samsung Intros Massive 4TB Variant of the SSD 850 EVO
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 $1,499.
26 Comments on Samsung Intros Massive 4TB Variant of the SSD 850 EVO
personB: "why you just did not buy a 8TB HDD for 200$ to store those files?"
personA: "emmm.... uhhh..... your mom is ugly"
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.
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.
I thought SSDs were supposed to get cheap soon. (Albeit low performance SSDs, but still)