Will the end of hard drives come soon? I think you won’t be able to buy a new one in 2027

A recent interview with Shawn Rosemarin, VP R&D (Customer Engineering unit) at Pure Storage, raised eyebrows recently after he predicted no more hard drives will be sold after 2028 (opens in new tab) (so from 2029 onwards). The rising cost of electricity will likely be the last nail in the coffin of hard disk drive proliferation in hyperscalers although the impending arrival of PLC (penta-level cell) technology and the absurdly low Terabyte price for SSD could play a role there.Because
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