Samsung Intros Massive 4TB Variant of the SSD 850 EVO

[btarunr]

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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[Prima.Vera]

Auch the price!!

 

[Chaitanya]

Auch the price!!

Check Anandtechs review, does look good though at .36$/GB it does get expensive.

 

[laszlo]

too bad the point is not between nine's

 

[hojnikb]

I bet @RejZoR has a massive hard on seeing this

 

[qubit]

I've just nerded out to this. Let's just say I want one.

 

[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"

 

[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*

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.

 

[R-T-B]

I 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.

 

[PP Mguire]

Sure Samsung! Sounds fantastic, let me just go and get my money; *Disclaimer* I might have to rob your CEO first though... *sigh*

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?

 

[Prima.Vera]

Was just thinking this myself, where the hell is it?

Vaporware

 

[Legacy-ZA]

https://www.techpowerup.com/219116/mushkin-shows-off-a-500-dollar-4-tb-ssd

 

[$ReaPeR$]

holy crap that price!!!!!

 

[yogurt_21]

https://www.techpowerup.com/219116/mushkin-shows-off-a-500-dollar-4-tb-ssd

have seen nothing on that drive in some time. Right now 500$ won't even get you a 2TB from mushkin

 

[hellrazor]

I get the feeling that VHS is gonna win out against Betamax on this one.

 

[eidairaman1]

wont be getting anytime soon

 

[Prima.Vera]

Either way, the HDD end is near. In 10 years, they will be next to floppies, CD drives , etc

 

[Jetster]

In 6 months it will be half price

 

[R-T-B]

Either 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.

 

[RejZoR]

I 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.

 

[PP Mguire]

Vaporware

I don't think so. I just think they announced it way too early or they had troubles with it.

 

[dont whant to set it"']

so 4 2terrabyte ssd's in raid 10 might cost?

 

[xorbe]

omg why so expensive. 850 EVO is TLC iirc.

 

[PP Mguire]

omg why so expensive. 850 EVO is TLC iirc.

No competition. They can price what they want.

 

[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:

http://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.