Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB Exterior SSDs

Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a variety of shopper and enterprise platforms, together with WD’s upcoming Gen 5 shopper SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the exterior storage entrance, the corporate demonstrated 4 completely different merchandise: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and eight TB SDUC playing cards with UHS-I speeds, and on the moveable SSD entrance we had two 16 TB drives. One will probably be a SanDisk Desk Drive with exterior energy, and the opposite within the SanDisk Excessive Professional housing with a lanyard opening within the case.

All of those are utilizing BiCS8 QLC NAND, although I did hear sales space discuss (as I used to be taking depart) that they weren’t purported to reveal the usage of QLC in these merchandise. The 4 TB microSDUC and eight TB SDUC playing cards are rated for UHS-I speeds. They’re being marketed beneath the SanDisk Extremely branding.

The SanDisk Desk Drive is an exterior SSD with a 18W energy adapter, and it has been available in the market for a number of months now. Initially launched in capacities as much as 8 TB, Western Digital had promised a 16 TB model earlier than the top of the yr. It seems that the product is coming to retail fairly quickly. One side to notice is that this drive has been utilizing TLC for the SKUs which might be presently available in the market, so it seems unlikely that the 16 TB model could be QLC. The items (at the very least as much as the 8 TB capability level) include two SN850XE drives. Given the current introduction of the 8 TB SN850X, an ‘E’ model with tweaked firmware is prone to be current within the 16 TB Desk Drive.

The 16 TB moveable SSD within the SanDisk Excessive housing was a expertise demonstration. It’s undoubtedly the best capability bus-powered moveable SSD demonstrated by any vendor at any commerce present so far. Given the 16 TB Desk Drive’s imminent market introduction, it’s only a matter of time earlier than the expertise demonstration of the bus-powered model turns into a retail actuality.