In 2018 there were roughly 900 exabytes of combined SSD/HDD storage shipped, comprising 100 exabytes of SSD. Let’s start by looking at the question from a purely economic standpoint.
New technologies that offer blazing speed are changing the storage ecosphere and upending how we measure the cost of storage. This is not an easy question to answer and there simply isn’t a straightforward response.
Recently we had a large data center ask us when we thought HDD and SSD will reach pricing parity.
