World bought 143 exabytes of storage in Q3, mostly spinning rust

The world bought 143 exabytes of storage in 2015's third quarter, according to analyst outfit Trendfocus, and looks to be on track for a 500 exabyte year. The firm doesn't usually name a “bytes shipped” number in the briefs it releases at no charge, but made an exception for the its Q3 data. That release reports 143 exabytes …

[Anonymous Coward]

So with all this spinning rust being bought daily.....

Where is that big shift to all flash ? Thought everyone (consumer and business) were only buying flash? Is that just hype from the flash vendors ? Guess the revolution hasn't taken off just yet.......And if this capacity was replacement for old junk, wouldn't it be mostly flash ?

[Nate Amsden]

Re: So with all this spinning rust being bought daily.....

well even if everyone WAS buying only flash it's been said several times there flat out isn't nearly enough flash manufacturing capacity to meet that level of demand anyway.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the economics stupid

If you don't need to thrash your data, but you do need to keep it, "spinning rust" is so much cheaper than flash. Tape is cheaper still.......

System managed seamless ILM is the future.

[TeeCee]

Re: It's the economics stupid

Too damned right. When streaming a 2 hour film, who gives a rat's arse whether it took 1ms or 10ms to find the start of it?

The bit where it's sitting on a mere penn'orth of disk or a quid's worth of flash becomes rather important when you consider the whole film library though.