Hard Drives Might Be In Trouble

[SteelCrysis]

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/st...ouble.html
It's a really good read. Hard drives are under assault from both SSDs and tape.

[RolloTheGreat]

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/st...ouble.html
It's a really good read. Hard drives are under assault from both SSDs and tape.

I don't see it going away anytime soon. Mechanical HDDs are dirt cheap, low error rate, very permanent storage. There's a place for this.

[BoFox]

Tape??  Well, I do hope that's true, but didn't know tape was being so viable again.

I'm starting to really dislike mechanical drives now.  Intel's 3DXpoint tech will spell certain death for HDD's, just like flash memory for cameras made these 1" micro hard drives seem silly.

Remember these?
http://www.steves-digicams.com/accessori...vices.html

[BoFox]

Just don't forget that this will change the world:

• The Optane SSD was able to achieve 7.2x times more IOPS at low queue depth and upto 5.21 times the IOPs of conventional SSDs at high queue depths.
  
• An Optane Technology based SSD has 10x times the density of conventional SSD drives.
  
• The marketing material also claims it is 1000x faster than the competition available on the market but it isn’t clear to what exactly they are referring to – a good guess would be latency, as opposed to bandwidth.
  
• Optane SSDs will have 1000x the endurance – which, if true, should mean the device has virtually unlimited life span for practical purposes.
  

 http://wccftech.com/intels-3d-xpoint-memory-featured-optane-ssds-optane-dimms-8x-performance-increase-conventional-ssds/#ixzz3rrTouPmh