Storage-class memory supporters may heed lessons learned from the 1970s

#IBM 's top advocate for a 50-year-old computer memory concept is finally getting the last laugh. The concept, known in its latest industry iteration as storage-class memory, is that nobody needs disks. Modern solid-state drives are a compromise because they're inherently all-flash, but they remain configured with all the bottlenecks of standard drives, even when sold as enterprise arrays.

The future's been arriving any day now for the past few decades. It decrees that computer architectures won't have drives at all—only processors, I/O, and non-volatile RAM (NVRAM). The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has been touting this since at least 2008. SNIA members continued promising a bright future, while noting ongoing challenges at the Persistent Memory Summit in January 2017 in San Jose.
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