Six storage technologies may sound like a hard disk (1)

When will the last traditional rotating hard disk exit the enterprise data center environment? Traditional hard disks are undoubtedly the most common storage media nowadays. We believe that traditional hard drives are well-founded, including avoiding the power and cooling resources required for server racks full of disks and eliminating the trouble of managing thousands of racks, in addition, the performance of traditional hard drives is inferior to those of SSD and other new technologies.

However, we are still using traditional rotating hard disks, which will remain the same for the next ten years or longer.

During this period, the new storage technology will change the way we store, access, process, and ultimately delete data. Some new technologies are in use, some are coming soon, and some are still the objects of scientists who are studying in the laboratory.

Let's take a look at the future of the storage industry when it tries its best to say goodbye to rotating hard disks.