Scality reckons theres life in HDDs yet – Blocks and Files

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That was the opinion of Pure Storage several weeks ago when it said it believed SSDs would kill off the hard disk drive business by the end of 2028. But Jerome Lecat, CEO at object storage software supplier Scality has scoffed at this idea when we asked him about it. Paul Speciale: Since we are partnered with nearly all industry-leading server platform providers, we get a unique overview of the true costs of storage media across the HDD and SSD spectrum. For high-density HDDs, power consumption ranges between 7W (idle) and 9.4W (max) per drive (see Seagate’s data sheet). In summary, we don’t believe that there is a sufficient difference in terms of power consumption for this to be the key buying criteria for customers.

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