Even though the TLC cells have an erase-write rating of only 5, 000 cycles the company says the system provides an acceptable life using wear-leveling, write reduction and overprovisioning. (although we would like to see some field data on this) and provide a totalstoragecapacity of up to 2 TB.
By combining HDD storagecapacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
With total stored information growth exceeding 50% annual increases, high capacity, low cost storage technologies such as digital magnetic tape will continue to play an important role.