Facebook parent Meta is exploring the use of QLC flash as an additional storage tier in its datacenters to address growing volumes of data as it juggles performance maintenance and energy efficiency.

Although this has boosted the storage capacity, the transition from single-level cell (SLC) to multi-level (MLC) and today’s TLC and QLC NAND Flash have come at severe penalties, mostly in the ...

Data center operators are aiming to optimize all areas of compute and storage inside their limited spaces. Meta sees an opportunity for QLC flash to provide a “middle tier” between the more expensive ...

“We‘re not just going cheap and deep. We don’t want a lot of gimmicks to deliver QLC, such as the use of storage-class memory as a cache. We get rid of the gimmicks to deliver both ...

Also, at the investor day event SanDisk was showing its high-performance TLC data center SSDs and announced a new QLC capacity data center SSD with storage capacities up to 128TB, see below ...

In recent years, Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND has gradually penetrated mainstream applications such as PCs and enterprise-level storage, but it has yet to make substantial inroads into the mobile ...