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Hybrid drives won't take off. Just hit the history books. It's not like there were hybrid tape/HDD drives. When a technology like this comes along it will slowl

Hybrid drives won't take off. Just hit the history books. It's not like there were hybrid tape/HDD drives. When a technology like this comes along it will slowly marginalize the old gear. So my crystal ball predicts the adoption of tiered setups. Anything that needs the performance bad enough to justify the cost will buy SSDs. HDDs will slowly be pushed into secondary "bulk storage" roles, then finally to backup and archival.

nitrogen 15y ago
It's not like there were hybrid tape/HDD drives. Actually, for a long time if you requested aerial image data from the USGS, an automated tape library would copy the desired data to hard drive, and then you could download it. It was always hard to find that site (obviously you don't want Google crawling a tape library), and I can't find it now if it still exists. Granted you may have been referring to actual integrated hardware, but I think such an automated system is close enough.