The latest generation of video game consoles come with NVMe SSDs as standard components, and game developers are starting to target solid state storage as a bas

The latest generation of video game consoles come with NVMe SSDs as standard components, and game developers are starting to target solid state storage as a baseline requirement. So there's some visible progress, with support from GPU hardware vendors, and Microsoft bringing new storage APIs to the table (including a clone of io_uring). I think any security concerns that might have once privileged hard drives over SSDs have been settled. There are plenty of options for FIPS 140-2/3 certified self-encrypting drives, and broad support for Sanitize operations that instruct the drive to wipe all user data even from storage areas that may not be accessible to the host system (ie caches, spare blocks. Any holdouts still preferring hard drives for security reasons are most probably deluded, and certainly are not influencing the storage market in any meaningful way.