{"id":32890,"date":"2018-08-20T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T07:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=32890"},"modified":"2018-08-20T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T07:23:53","slug":"samsung-electronics-begins-mass-production-of-industrys-first-4-bit-consumer-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/08\/20\/samsung-electronics-begins-mass-production-of-industrys-first-4-bit-consumer-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics begins mass production of industry’s first 4-bit consumer SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has begun mass producing the industry\u2019s first 4-bit (QLC, quad-level cell) 4-terabyte (TB) SATA solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers.<\/p>\n

Based on 1-terabit (Tb) V-NAND with outstanding performance equivalent to the company\u2019s 3-bit design, Samsung\u2019s QLC SSD is expected to bring a new level of efficiency to consumer SSDs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSamsung\u2019s new 4-bit SATA SSD will herald a massive move to terabyte-SSDs for consumers,\u201d said Jaesoo Han, executive vice president of memory sales & marketing at Samsung Electronics. \u201cAs we expand our lineup across consumer segments and to the enterprise, 4-bit terabyte-SSD products will rapidly spread throughout the entire market.\u201d<\/p>\n

With its new 1Tb 4-bit V-NAND chip, Samsung will be able to efficiently produce a 128GB memory card for smartphones that will lead the charge toward higher capacities for high-performance memory storage.<\/p>\n

Typically, as data stored within a memory cell increases from three bits to four, the chip capacity per unit area would rise and the electrical charge (used to determine information from a sensor) would decrease by as much as 50 percent, making it considerably more difficult to maintain a device\u2019s desired performance and speed.<\/p>\n

However, Samsung\u2019s 4-bit 4TB QLC SATA SSD maintains its performance levels at the same level as a 3-bit SSD, by using a 3-bit SSD controller and TurboWrite technology, while increasing drive capacity through the use of 32 chips, all based on 64-layer fourth-generation 1Tb V-NAND.<\/p>\n

The 4-bit QLC SSD enables a sequential read speed of 540 MB\/s and a sequential write speed of 520 MB\/s, and comes with a three-year warranty.<\/p>\n

Samsung plans to introduce several 4-bit consumer SSDs later this year with 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities in the widely used 2.5-inch form factor.<\/p>\n

Since introducing the 32-gigabyte (GB) 1-bit SSD in 2006, which ushered in the PC SSD era, to today\u2019s 4TB 4-bit SSD, Samsung continues to drive new thresholds for each multi-bit generation.<\/p>\n

In addition, the company expects to provide M.2 NVMe SSDs for the enterprise this year and begin mass production of 4-bit fifth-generation V-NAND. This will considerably expand its SSD lineup to meet the growing demand for faster, more reliable performance across a wide span of applications, such as next generation data centers, enterprise servers, and enterprise storage.<\/p>\n

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has begun mass producing the industry\u2019s first 4-bit (QLC, quad-level cell) 4-terabyte (TB) SATA solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers. Based on 1-terabit (Tb) V-NAND with outstanding performance equivalent to the company\u2019s 3-bit design, Samsung\u2019s QLC SSD is expected to bring a new level of efficiency to consumer SSDs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[2009,6259,2026,4605],"class_list":["post-32890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laptops-computers","category-headlines","tag-data-storage","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-sata-ssds","tag-solid-state-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}