The world’s highest-capacity SSD, a 16 TB 850 EVO SSD model from Samsung began shipping in March.
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Samsung then crammed the 4TB of capacity into a 2.5-in.
Samsung today announced what it claims is the highest capacity consumer solid state drive, a 4TB member of its 850 EVO line, which will retail for $1,499 or about 36 cents per gigabyte of capacity. The 4TB 850 EVO has a SATA 6Gb/s interface, and it is compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s.
If you use your storage to store games and a media library, it will be years until you hit that limit. It now sits as the highest-capacity SSD Samsung offers in the 850 EVO line; those who need less space can also get 2TB, 1TB, 500GB, 250GB, and 120GB capacities.
All of this capacity and speed comes at a steep price and the EVO 4TB will run you an huge $1,499 (about £1,155, AU$1,989) when it arrives on July 31st. With the new 4TB 850 EVO, Samsung uses its well-respected V-NAND and rates it for 300 terabytes written. It is still backed by a five-year warranty and comes with a 300TB write endurance rating.
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Samsung is making another big splash in the storage market this morning. This makes it just slightly more expensive, compared to the smaller sizes. The drive offers your standard SATA 3 performance with up to 540 MB/s reads, with up to 520 MB/s writes (sequential) add up to 98,000 IOPS sequential reads, with up to 90,000 IOPS sequential writes.
