2023 Retrospective On Storage
StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
2023 is now over and here we summarize some key events, news and facts we estimate reflecting what happened during the last 12 months in the primary and secondary storage landscape and more globally in the storage industry.
Starting with components, HDDs, SSDs and flash cards became more and more dense. Seagate announced the Exos X24 HDD with the 24TB SMR and 28TB SMR drives. Western Digital did the same with 2 new Ultrastar HDDs with similar capacities for CMR and SMR. And Toshiba unveiled a 22TB CMR drive. HDDs grew in capacity but one of the advantages they had in the past vs. SSDs and flash disappeared. Solidigm has unveiled a 61.44TB SSD during FMS 2023. New layers record has been passed with several vendors really active like Samsung, Kioxia, WDC, SK Hynix and Micron.