Judging by the recent flood of flash-only storage launches, you can expect to soon see the primary storage hybrid array on the endangered species list -- right alongside the black rhino and blue whale.
Almost all of the new primary storage launches these days are all-flash arrays. Since the start of 2016, #EMC, #Hitachi Data Systems, #Pure Storage, #Nimble Storage, #Tegile, #IBM and #X-IO Technologies have launched flash-only primary storage arrays. That doesn't count #NetApp 's acquisition of #SolidFire 's all-flash platform. Most of the large storage vendors have several all-flash products, and it's become difficult to find a storage array vendorwithout any flash-only platforms.
Of course, storage and IT technologies die hard. Tape and mainframe are exhibits A and B of that. But recent product launches make you think the entire world is going all-flash. And it is, for primary storage. The fastest hard disk drives are already disappearing from primary storage arrays. It will probably take at least a few years, but it's more a question of when than if HDDs will disappear from arrays, except for bulk storage.
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