Comment Re:duh (Score 1) 256
disks (and to some extent tape) will always have scaling advantages over litho-fabed storage
I could not disagree more. Disks spin and have some complicated assemblies and pricier raw materials. The main cost inputs to SSD are capital investments (which amortize to zero over time) and energy. There is a lower limit to density in flash (which AIUI we are already close to) but flash is already denser than hard drives. Tapes have an advantage in that they are not active and so are very cheap for offline data. Disk drives OTOH have no fundamental advantages over flash -- they are being rapidly displaced for user facing devices. Warm storage (NAS etc) where SSD performance don't play will take longer -- maybe 3-4 years and it's done.