We have HAMR coming out which will improve density & cost competitiveness a lot, and there's recent technologies like dRAID which makes the low speed less of an

We have HAMR coming out which will improve density & cost competitiveness a lot, and there's recent technologies like dRAID which makes the low speed less of an issue, but to me hard drives getting squeezed to death between tape and flash seems like an inevitability. I'd be surprised to see hard drive sales become obsolete in the next decade, but I wouldn't be shocked to see the technology collapse in two. The market for them in terms of units sold peaked in 2010. Personally I'm just excited about all the cheap drives enterprises are going to offload onto the used market.