Will we see the last spinning rust hard disk drive be sold in 2028?

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Message 2125321 - Posted: 11 Sep 2023, 1:50:42 UTC

Hard drives predicted to be history after 2028

So long, hard drives, and thanks for all the storage. The very last mechanical hard drive will be sold in 2028, bringing an end to the magnetic storage era.

At least, that's what Shawn Rosemarin of Pure Storage reckons, a company that—you guessed it—specializes in solid-state storage. And his reasoning is not quite what you might think.
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Message 2125857 - Posted: 22 Sep 2023, 7:26:48 UTC
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I don't know if this is just positive news. Magnetic storage is reliable and quite durable. It is estimated that data can be read back for at least 100 years. What about electronic storage? How long do they store reliably? What about geophysical events that occur so rarely that they have not occurred again since the age of electrification. Changes in solar activity, geomagnetic storms (Carrington event), a polarity reversal of the earth's magnetic field. This has happened in the past and it will happen again in the future. It would probably be better to use a wide variety of storage methods and not to entrust the world's knowledge to the cheapest (and energy-saving) storage technology in standard servers.

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An apocalyptic thought but: A world war with widespread use of nuclear weapons will certainly not destroy all areas of the world, but it will easily destroy all electronic storage devices. So, I mean electromagnetic pulses (EMP), nuclear EMP (NEMP), high altitude NEMP (HEMP)...
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