Reply to post: Re: It will soon be over!

Flash is fallible. But you'd rather have an AFA than spinning rust

Naselus

Re: It will soon be over!

Flash stills cost around 50 times as much to make per TB than spinning rust. The SSDs that are presently cheaper than enterprise HDDs are not enterprise grade; their lifetime is measured in terabytes rather than petabytes. That's is fine for consumer-grade, but will fry out in 6 months in my file servers. And since data projections keep increasing just as fast as storage increases, I wouldn't expect price parity ever, really; Flash will be replaced before it gets cheaper than HDD.

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