HDDs To Remain Dominant Storage Footprint In 2025
SearchStorage, Thursday, December 26th, 2024
HDDs will retain their top storage spot in the new year despite advances in flash, analysts say.
Despite the push in 2024 for faster storage, most business-critical data that isn't in high demand is being stored on HDDs. With SSDs now being sold at over 100 TB each, experts weighed in on how much longer HDDs will be able to stay on top.
AI has ushered in an era where high performance is critical, at least in certain instances. HDDs are known for their low cost per gigabyte of storage -- not for their high speeds. HDDs have long been the primary data storage footprint in enterprises, but the rising demands on performance might see flash storage -- a much faster but more expensive type of storage -- begin to make larger inroads into the HDD's footprint.