I shudder to think of the P/E cycle endurance. QLC is already abysmal at 100-1,000 or so so if the SLC-MLC-TLC-QLC trend holds, it will be in the order of 10 or so in the first generation.
So each cell is now a x86 cache line wide, that's wild.<p>I have a hard time imagining this is useful or good for many apications, as I just expect endurance to be awful. But given how much data warehousing we do, there is definitely some potential for this, as a post-nearline storage.<p>This also seems like something zones storage would be so good for, to help reduce write-amplification concerns. Alas there are still zero drives one can go slap down a credit card & purchase.
Doesn't really change anything. Current 4TB SSD is about $200. And that is close to selling at cost or lost. Even if they achieve it the price per TB will likely be the same just offering them better margins.