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Comment The use of disk drives to store performance data for enterprises is declining and, flash drives - SSDs - are taking their place. A wave of all-flash array (AFA) to disk array migration is starting to wash across data centres as generations of disk drive arrays give way to ones built with NAND flash drives. The tipping …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Late to the party

    It started over a hear ago by my observation. I'm seeing customers view even hybrid storage with suspicion these days, and many have had a flash-only policy since 2015.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    15K spindles are dead

    3D NAND has already surpassed 15K.

    I still find a place for 10K and 7.2K drives - based on SMB needs, high capacity, etc.

    A year or two from now, doubtful.

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  3. emv

    just checking... but it would seem the data mentioned and the graph shown is the opposite of a tipping point. it seems to be steady adoption over time... not yet at 50%. am I missing something.

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    1. Charles 9
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      You're missing the point in 2014 when the graph turns downward. That's about the tipping point.

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  4. anonymous boring coward Silver badge

    "Every time a block of cells is written some portion of that block’s life is ended."

    Sounds worrying to me!

    I always assumed that failure crept in after a number of rewrites.

    I have 4 of these things in my home, at the moment.

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