A recent post on the notion of the All-Flash Data Center running up against customer realities. This echoes a previous post of mine. Just as the cost flash is decreasing so is the cost of spinning media. Just as flash benefits from dedupe/compression capabilities, so does spinning media driving down the cost of ‘effective capacity’ further. Flash will of course gain against spinning media for active data but we still appear to be a long way off from an all solid state data center without low-cost, high-density magnetic media.
All-flash storage stumbles on cost per gigabyte