Samsung starts mass production of cheaper 4TB SSDs

When Samsung unveiled its 4TB solid state drives a couple of years back, these weren’t exactly the cheapest products at US$1,499. Now, with the company’s new 4-bit 4TB QLC SSDs, the company promises these would be more affordable alternatives. The new storage chips allow these drives to have the same 540MBps read and 520MBps write speeds of Samsung’s existing SATA SSD drives, making these enticing products for those who need more space. Samsung even throws in three-year warranty for them. The first drives are expected to come out later this year.

Aside from developing new SSDs, Samsung is also using this same technology “to efficiently produce a 128GB memory card for smartphones that will lead the charge toward higher capacities for high-performance memory storage.” So, if you feel like your smartphone is lacking some extra space, these might be worth keeping an eye out for.