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'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises (www.techradar.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a HDD based system be like 1/10th the price? I don't know if HDDs are going away any time soon.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

I'll shed no tears, even as a NAS owner, once we get equivalent capacity SSD without ruining the bank :P