In The Era Of Cloud And AI, Hard Drives Are More Critical Than Ever Before
insideBIGDATA, Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
In an era where cloud and the emergence of AI use cases have driven up the value of massive data sets, hard drives are more critical for data center operators than ever before.
Hard drives store the majority of the world's exabytes (EB) and industry analysts expect hard drives to be the primary beneficiary of continued EB growth. That will be the case especially in enterprise and large cloud data centers-where most of the world's data sets reside.
Proponents of flash-only technology have claimed for years that 'hard drives will soon be a thing of the past' and 'the data center of the future is all-flash.' These comments have not aged well. Without question, solid-state drives (SSDs) are an important technology and are well-suited to support applications that require real-time data transfer. However, hard drives will continue to be the primary destination for data center exabytes.