HDDs will go the way of the dodo before the decade is over, predicts a top exec at Pure Storage. a flash, software, and cloud storage company. Shawn Rosemarin is the VP of R&D within the Customer Engineering unit at Pure, and in discussion with Blocks & Files he predicted that “no more hard disk drives will be sold after 2028.” This controversial prediction from Pure, a flash-centric storage tech company, might be little more than wishful thinking, but warrants a closer look at issues which might shorten the lifespan of HDD technology.
A crushing pincer movement will assault the current position of HDD technology in the storage industry, implies Rosemarin. On one side of the pincer, he sees electricity costs and availability squeezing the popularity, and even viability, of HDDs. The other is formed by the continued reduction in the cost per TB of flash storage.
