This article seems like it is an AI summary of another document. It doesn’t offer anything new, just restating someone else’s analysis. And that analysis comes down to… storage demand will outpace SSDs price point enough that the demand will be met by both SSDs and traditional spinning platters.

Which isn’t surprising as even today there is demand for tape. The question is how long the demand will remain vaguely mainstream vs when it will become more niche. The 2028 estimate of storage being dominated by SSDs seems vaguely reasonable to me.

Pure’s bravado of staying zero hard drives will be sold after 2028 seems silly but inline with what a flash storage company would say. But from a directional standpoint it probably is right that many use cases will get further eroded by SSDs. One big challenge with hard drives is access speed (throughout and latency) compared to nvme, and hard drives being used more as cold and near line storage is definitely going to continue. Write once access never in many cases.