The Dawning of a New Storage Age
Chris Mellor, in an article presented on Channel Register, discusses the future of storage in flash, disk and tape. Mellor suggests flash for speed; disk for bulk secondary and backup data; and tape for the archival backstop.
"The way forward is clear. For enterprise primary data, flash will be the medium with everything else on disk either SAS or SATA 10K and 7.2K rpm disk. There will be no need for faster drives. Whatever residual need there is will be for small businesses that don't need or can't afford a flash premium, and enterprise apps in a similar situation. Hybrid drives, ones with flash caches, will be a higher performance option, for disks where both capacity and speed are needed.
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