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To: SiliconAlley who wrote (3819)6/11/2018 1:12:22 PM
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The endurance on these is so low, there are no concerns of this being a competitive threat to WDC products. Unlike WDC's x4 product, based on quadrant located 3 bits per cell, QLC is based on 4 bits per cell.


This is not correct. There is a sizable subset of read heavy enterprise workloads where the economics of a QLC drive are compelling. Micron has already announced that their first QLC drives will focus on Enterprise, and that is where all the growth is. So low endurance QLC drives are most certainly a threat unless WDC makes a similar product available. Secondly, can you explain what "quadrant located 3 bits per cell" means? I've never heard of it, and a quick google search didn't find anything either.
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