January 25, 2023
Rainer Kaese, a Toshiba executive, believes that Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) are critical for storing data in a variety of market areas because Solid State Drives (SSDs), which store everything in flash memory, are insufficient.
Kaese stated in an interview with Global Security Mag that because SSDs are unsuitable for certain types of work, HDDs will continue to reign for a long time, and SSDs will not replace HDDs.
Kaese says: “SSDs are not expected to completely replace hard drives at any time. As the need for storage space is growing almost everywhere and only HDDs can provide the high storage capacities at low cost, something that datacenters, the cloud and other applications require, both media will continue to coexist in the coming years.”
According to Kease, hard drives are far from dead. They are almost always unavoidable. Toshiba sold 258.9 million HDDs in 2022. Their total capacity is 1,338 zettabytes, an increase of nearly one-third over 2020. Never before have HDDs had such a combined storage capacity.
Kease also believes that hard disk drives are less expensive than flash memory and faster than tape. Manufacturers’ ability to pack more and more data into conventional HDDs makes them even more appealing. SSDs, which are much faster, do not achieve this level of compactness at appropriate prices for the advancement of mass storage defined by cloud generalization and data collection.
This means that HDDs have a great potential not only in data centers and NAS, but also in video surveillance systems, which are becoming more common in many countries.
The sources for this piece include an article in Blocksandfiles
