JAB
2023-05-13 11:01:33 UTC
No more hard drives will be sold after 2028
In the latest blast of the HDD vs SSD culture wars, a Pure Storage
exec is predicting that no more hard disk drives will be sold after
2028 because of electricity costs and availability, as well as NAND
$/TB declines.
Shawn Rosemarin, VP R&D within the Customer Engineering unit at Pure,
told B&F: "The ultimate trigger here is power. It's just fundamentally
coming down to the cost of electricity." Not the declining cost of
SSDs and Pure's DFMs dropping below the cost of disks, although that
plays a part.
In his view: "Hard drive technology is 67 years old. We need to herald
this technology that went from five megabytes the size of this room to
where we are today. And even the latest HAMR technology, putting a
laser on the top of the head in order to heat up the platters, is
pretty remarkable ... But we're at the end of that era."
https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/05/09/pure-no-more-hard-drives-2028/
In the latest blast of the HDD vs SSD culture wars, a Pure Storage
exec is predicting that no more hard disk drives will be sold after
2028 because of electricity costs and availability, as well as NAND
$/TB declines.
Shawn Rosemarin, VP R&D within the Customer Engineering unit at Pure,
told B&F: "The ultimate trigger here is power. It's just fundamentally
coming down to the cost of electricity." Not the declining cost of
SSDs and Pure's DFMs dropping below the cost of disks, although that
plays a part.
In his view: "Hard drive technology is 67 years old. We need to herald
this technology that went from five megabytes the size of this room to
where we are today. And even the latest HAMR technology, putting a
laser on the top of the head in order to heat up the platters, is
pretty remarkable ... But we're at the end of that era."
https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/05/09/pure-no-more-hard-drives-2028/