Apple's 4TB hard drives are $3,200. Samsung might have a better idea.

You can get a ton of storage for your new laptop — but you'll probably have to pay an arm and a leg for it. Putting a 4TB SSD in the new MacBook Pro immediately adds $3,200 to the cost, for example. 

But Samsung's new line of SSDs might change that. The company's new 4TB QLC SSD is very fast and, though Samsung didn't share exact pricing yet, it's aimed primarily at consumers, not professionals. 

The new 4-bit drive, based on 1Tb V-NAND technology, will offer 540MB/s sequential read speed and 520MB/s sequential write speed, which is on the same level as the company's 3-bit drives. In other words, you're getting a lot more storage with the same performance as before, which is already fast enough for pretty much anything you can throw at it.  Read more...