With the falling prices of NAND Flash and the imminent arrival in 2021 of PLCs as next-generation cells, the debate of traditional HDDs and their existence has returned to the table stronger than ever. The euro price per TB is still lower in these, but the consumer market is turning very fast to high-capacity and high-speed SSDs, a sector where all manufacturers are, will HDDs fall into oblivion?
As we say, the debate is on the table and this time it is not recurrent, it is that in 2021 the PLCs from Intel first and surely after the other manufacturers will flood the market with SSDs of much more capacity, while the HDDs suffer to currently offer 20 TB to servers and data centers, will SSDs definitely take the baton?
HDDs between a rock and a hard place, not even data centers going to support them?
It is clear that current SSDs cannot work in data centers where backup security is vital, especially since those that are stored for years cannot afford to lose bits due to lack of power. Also, many of them work with tapes, which are even more secure.
The fact that SSDs improve their density is not going to give them victory so easily, since although they will never be in security cabinets and systems like banking for obvious reasons, they could literally swallow the market in certain servers, but for Thus the cost of euro per Terabyte should continue to fall.
In PC, there is already talk that 2021 will be the year of the progressive disappearance of this type of disks in favor of lower capacity SSDs (greater than the current one), so that manufacturers are going to lose a vein there, the Which they will win in part with the SSD, since not the entire market is controlled by the 4 companies in turn, but it is broader.
Increased capacity and speed on traditional HDDs
Major manufacturers such as Seagate and WD have been announcing for years that there will be improvements to these, where network administrators will be able to configure these HDDs in new redundant systems of 10 or more disks working at the same time.
The problem will be time again, the technology does not finish arriving, MAMR and the like still seem very green and now the paradigm is entering that capacity may not make sense if it is not usable as such, since many sectors are reserved for other maintenance tasks, for example.
Sales have dropped by half since 2010, that is, in just 10 years 50% less HDDs are sold, SSDs do not stop improving capacity, speed, consumption and temperature and are entering more and more markets. If we talk about NAND Flash then comparatively speaking HDDs are about to die, since the chips of the first are in billions of devices and each time in a greater number.
Others on the other hand believe that SSDs by their nature (silicon) will never be at the price of HDDs, perhaps in capacity. This would leave traditional hard drives hoping to play with prices down, since SSDs by many layers that they stack make use of materials that are expensive and therefore, although they equal in capacity to HDDs, they will never do so in price and therefore there will be no official death of these.
