Spinning Rust Ain’t Dead Yet

Episode: 72 Published: 9/5/2023

The Spinning Disk Hard Drive Is Dead; Long Live The Spinning Disk Hard Drive

This month saw Samsung announcing some frankly absurd upcoming SSD products. Among them are a 256TB SSD and a PBSSD solution that encompasses, you guessed it, petabyte-sized SSD solutions. These are obviously future looking, and heavily based in the datacenter. Not addressed at the event is why a consumer would want or need that kind of storage, nor the fact that the market barely has any options for said consumers at 4TB, let alone larger. Still, in the enterprise this is big news, and announcements like it have lead companies such as Pure Storage to announce the effective end of HDDs, or, in parlance, spinning rust, as soon as 2028.