That depends on how much those supposed 50TB hard drives cost in four years.
Though even if hard drive prices stay completely stagnant at $14/TB during sales, I'd still get a hard drive for videos and backups rather than pay $25.
> I'd still get a hard drive for videos and backups rather than pay $25.
So would everyone who's only motivation for buying storage is $/TB and nothing else. The vast majority of those people think 8 or even 80TB is alot and are pefectly happy with subpar drives being packaged in external usb enclosures. And there's nothing wrong with that, but that demographic of consumers is not the driving economic force in what gets developed, invested in, and brought to market.
HDD's ~$15/TB bargain values wont be sustainable if Enterprise drops HDD's for WORM/WFRM workloads because their TCO is too high (and many are). Disk shelves chew through Kilowatts like candy while capacious focused flash hosts seem comparatively allergic to electricity, and repairing/rebulding arrays on spinning rust compared to flash arrays alone is impetus enough for a lot of shops to dump rust and embrace solid state.
> That depends on how much those supposed 50TB hard drives cost in four years.
For sure. I'm highly skeptical they can pull that off in that time frame though. the pace of innovation in the HDD space is woefully lacking. They need a win like that, with competitive pricing, or the industries days are numbered. If they can pull it off though that's great. I'm all for cheaper/better storage options, even if it's mechanical (or optical or whatever).
Though even if hard drive prices stay completely stagnant at $14/TB during sales, I'd still get a hard drive for videos and backups rather than pay $25.