'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca · 27 days ago

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 days ago

Wouldn’t a HDD based system be like 1/10th the price? I don’t know if HDDs are going away any time soon.

Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 26 days ago

Spinning platter capacity can’t keep up with SSDs. HDDs are just starting to break the 30TB mark and SSDs are shipping 50+. The cost delta per TB is closing fast. You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash, so you get better utilization.

SaltySalamander@fedia.io · 26 days ago

You can also have always on compression and dedupe in most cases with flash

As you can with spinning disks. Nothing about flash makes this a special feature.

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises

2.3PB in a 2U storage server and for under $381,000? IBM's FlashSystem C200 is expensive yet affordable