The latest MacBook Pro machines offer up to 2TB SSDs, with an iFixit teardown revealing that this is achieved by using two 1TB Samsung V-NAND boards …
Samsung has now announced that it’s managed to double the capacity of these in a version to be available in 2018.
Using two of these, one on each side of the logic board as Apple does now, would allow a maximum capacity of 4TB.
Whether Apple actually chooses to offer this capacity is another matter, of course. The company’s machines maxed out at 1TB for a long time, and 2TB is an extremely expensive option today. Apple is also increasingly pushing cloud storage over on-board capacity.
But for those of us who like to have local access to a lot of media wherever we are, the prospect of 4TB capacity would certainly be appealing.
