Posted on Monday, October 01 2018 @ 10:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Long term it's kinda hard to see a bright future for the mechanical disk market, but in the near term some segments continue to sell strong. Christopher Bergey, executive VP at Western Digital (WD), notes demand for enterprise datacenter disks remain robust. Demand from this sector is up a massive 40 percent year-over-year:
In the enterprise data center segment, HDD demand has as high as 40% annual growth, Bergey said. There is still a gap between SSD and HDD prices, though the industry's transition to 3D NAND manufacturing has been dragging down SSD prices, Bergey indicated.
Traditional hard drive storage is well suited for handling massive big data analytics to support machine learning, while solid state storage provides fast read and write speeds to allow fast and efficient decision making, Bergey said.
Via: DigiTimes
