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'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 (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Haven't they said that about magnetic tape as well?

Some 30 years ago?

Isn't magnetic tape still around? Isn't even IBM one of the major vendors?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Anyone who has said that doesn't know what they're talking about. Magnetic tape is unparalleled for long-term/archival storage.

This is completely different. For active storage, solid-state has been much better than spinning rust for a long time, it's just been drastically more expensive. What's being argued here is that it's not performant and while it might be more expensive initially, it's less expensive to run and maintain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Tape will survive, SSDs will survive. Spinning rust will die

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That's all circumstantial.

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