So this just happened: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09 ... each-cell/
PLC NAND (Penta Layer Cell) NAND memory which will now likely enable a single NAND chip of +1Tb size. Likely will be slow, but with a decent sized SLC cache, they could soon be producing +8Tb consumer SSDs with only a few chips on them.
This might be the last generation of HDDs being manufactured right now. It can't be long before comparable SSDs are less per Gb to manufacture.
PLC NAND (Penta Layer Cell) NAND memory which will now likely enable a single NAND chip of +1Tb size. Likely will be slow, but with a decent sized SLC cache, they could soon be producing +8Tb consumer SSDs with only a few chips on them.
This might be the last generation of HDDs being manufactured right now. It can't be long before comparable SSDs are less per Gb to manufacture.