Analyst Forecasts Continued HDD Sales Beyond 2028
Blocks & Files, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Analyst Coughlin Associates' latest Digital Storage Technology Newsletter sees no signs that SSDs are going to stop new hard disk drive (HDD) sales after 2028.
All-flash array vendor Pure Storage is at the forefront of predictions that there will be no new HDD sales from that timeframe onewards. CEO Charles Giancarlo said in June 2023: 'The days of hard disks are coming to an end - we predict that there will be no new hard disks sold in 5 years.'
Thomas Coughlin, President of Coughlin Associates, issues his DST newsletter each quarter and the May 2024 issue contains historical disk units and capacity shipped information with projections of current trends.