SSDs are getting more economical, particularly in the quantities cloud providers buy them in. Wear leveling is getting much better, they are more power efficient, and they have no moving parts to break. It won’t surprise me if a lot of cloud storage is on SSDs, and we might not have spinning rust at all in a few years.
All the kids are using “the cloud” these days. Which is just a fancy proprietary server somewhere with spinning drives.
The youngest seem to be on board with a full cloud OS.
To me “the cloud” just mean you dont own your own product, not to mention the privacy issues. Spinning local HDD for me any day.
The cloud = Monthly Subscription
Relevant XKCD :
https://xkcd.com/908/
SSDs are getting more economical, particularly in the quantities cloud providers buy them in. Wear leveling is getting much better, they are more power efficient, and they have no moving parts to break. It won’t surprise me if a lot of cloud storage is on SSDs, and we might not have spinning rust at all in a few years.