IEEE Report: When It Comes To SSD And HDD Tech Roadmaps, Money Talks
Blocks & Files, Monday, August 5th, 2024
An IEEE report sees no mass takeover of the disk drive market by SSDs because HDD cost/bit is decreasing fast enough to prevent SSDs catching up.
The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems 2023 Update (IRDS) is discussed in Tom Coughlin's August Digital Storage Technology Newsletter (subscription details here.) It covers many mass storage technologies: SCM, NAND/SSDs, HDDS, tape and emerging memories including DNA.
We're focusing on SSDs and disk drives here and the IEEE report notes that HDDs have ceded the fast data access market to SSDs: 'As flash-based SSD costs have fallen, HDDs have been displaced: first in consumer PCs, and increasingly in data centers, as SSDs have come to occupy the tier of frequently, and randomly, accessed data.'