Pure Storage

OCTOBER 19, 2023

by Pure Storage Blog By 2028, practically no new all-hard disk drive (HDD) storage systems will be sold for enterprise data center computing. Meanwhile, HDDs were largely relegated to secondary workloads, where factors like capacity and cost took precedence over speed. The Data Center of the Future Is All-flash.

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Pure Storage

MAY 10, 2024

are needed to build a system to meet any given performance and capacity requirements. At Pure//Accelerate ® 2023, we put a stake in the ground that 2028 would be the last year when new storage systems built around HDDs would be sold for enterprise use. In fact, enterprise SSDs comprise roughly only 15% of the overall SSD market.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The second was what I would call a pretty hot take (as far as hot takes go in the storage industry): With the rapid pace of flash innovation, we predicted that there would be no place for hard drives in the data center by 2028. They’re capable and sophisticated inside while remaining simple to manage and consume on the outside.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In fact, the technology dates back to the 1950s, when IBM first constructed a server farm about the size of two refrigerators with a storage capacity of 3.75MB. By this time, HDDs were primarily being used as secondary workloads that were more capacity- and cost-constrained than primary workloads. But that’s a far cry from today.

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