Apparently Samsung has a new SSD that allows for up to 4 terabytes of storage using quad cell tech.

I'm not sure how reliable quad cell will be long-term, but I just wanted to bring it to everyone's attention. Samsung will hopefully drop the prices for the 4TB model to be competitive against spinny disks.

These drives might be good as a cache layer for larger storage arrays that use platter drives -- the IOPS are around 90k for read so it is definitely much better than platter for random I/O.

The big question I have is how reliable these drives will be long-term -- but in any event, it's a new storage tech from Samsung so it's worth checking out. If anyone buys it, I'd be interested in knowing how it holds up under load.

The 4TB drive is supposed to have a three year warranty and a total of ~1.2 petabytes of rewrite capability before the cells start crapping out.