Sean Rosemary, vice president of research and development at Pure Storage, said that after 2028, conventional hard drives will disappear completely from the market and will be replaced by cheaper SSDs. It has been reported Blocks and Files.
According to the expert, such a transition by the end of the 2020s is associated not only with a sharp decrease in the cost of SSDs, but also with an increase in the cost of electricity and the appearance on the market of SSDs based on NAND PLC. flash drive.
However, Rosemary explained that the complete disappearance of the HDD should be expected among corporate customers, not ordinary PC and laptop users.
Analysts periodically release forecasts of a near decline in NAND memory prices and argue that the trend will continue in the coming years. In this context, leading HDD manufacturers Seagate and Western Digital have started to create their own versions of SSDs in order to maintain their position in the market should hard drives disappear.
It was previously reported that Samsung. plans develop and release an SSD capable of storing 1 petabyte (PB) of records in the near future.