Haven’t they said that about magnetic tape as well?
Some 30 years ago?
Isn’t magnetic tape still around? Isn’t even IBM one of the major vendors?
Wouldn’t a HDD based system be like 1/10th the price? I don’t know if HDDs are going away any time soon.
Spinning platter capacity can’t keep up with SSDs. HDDs are just starting to break the 30TB mark and SSDs are shipping 50+. The cost delta per TB is closing fast. You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash, so you get better utilization.
You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash
As you can with spinning disks. Nothing about flash makes this a special feature.
I’ll shed no tears, even as a NAS owner, once we get equivalent capacity SSD without ruining the bank :P
