Quad Goals: Meta Proposes QLC SSDs As A New Storage Tier In Datacenters
The Register, Friday, March 7th, 2025
Trying to find a middle ground between spinning rust and performant TLC
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.
Zuck's empire says in a blog posting that it is looking to deploy Quad Level Cell (QLC) SSDs as a middle tier between hard drives (HDDs) that provide bulk storage and the Triple-Level Cell (TLC) drives installed as a performance tier.