The sale of mechanical hard drives will be completely stopped in 5 years
The sale of mechanical hard drives will be completely stopped in 5 years
The sale of mechanical hard drives will be completely stopped in 5 years.
Comparing with SSD’s weakness, storage manufacturers: within 5 years, the sale of mechanical hard drives will be completely stopped.
The battle between solid-state drives (SSD) and mechanical hard drives (HDD) has never stopped.
A few days ago, Shawn Rosemarin, vice president of research and development of Pure Storage, a professional storage company, said that the last straw that crushes mechanical hard drives will be power consumption.
Taking into account the declining unit price per TB of SSD, he predicted that mechanical hard drives will be completely discontinued in 2028.
Although consumers are not concerned about the power consumption of hard drives, Rosemarin pointed out that in fact, 3% of the world’s electricity is used in data centers, and 1/3 of the power consumption comes from storage systems, which account for Most of them are mechanical hard drives.
Rosemarin pointed out that as the unit price per TB of SSDs continues to drop, the cost of switching to SSDs will decrease, and at the same time, fewer hard drives can be used to achieve a larger (order-of-magnitude) storage scale, which will help reduce system power consumption by 80~90 % %.
From this point of view, what is the value of mechanical hard drives?
In order to strengthen his point of view, Rosemarin also said that mechanical hard disks have been available for 67 years, and HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) is just lingering, and the prospect of increasing unit density is far less than SSD.
Some people may question whether the price of electricity will not be lowered? Rosemarin believes that this will only be possible after a breakthrough in nuclear power technology.
The current real problem is that some countries and regions have adopted power restriction measures. They originally wanted to deploy a data center project in Ireland, but the other party directly said that there is no power distribution quota…
In addition, Rosemarin also said with a smile, friends, I haven’t mentioned the poor performance of HDD in terms of I/O transmission speed!
The sale of mechanical hard drives will be completely stopped in 5 years
