This week Chris and Martin talk to Steve Hanna, Senior Product Manager for Enterprise SSDs at Micron. Steve looks after the 5210 ION QLC SSD product line, which was introduced earlier this year. As an evolution of existing flash technology, QLC offers greater capacities at lower cost. But what are the issues? The conversation covers how QLC has reduced the price to 1/100th of that seen in early enterprise SSDs. Although endurance is lower than previous flash generations, in reality for many use cases the ability to write up to 1 DWPD is enough. However, …
