The Hard Disk Autopsy

The hard disk is dead. Or at least it should be.

Cause of death? The performance demands of the modern data center. Enterprise storage expectations and needs have changed, but the capabilities of HDDs and even solid state disks (SSDs) have not. So now it’s time for a new solution.

Storage Switzerland performed a technology autopsy to find out where the hard disk failed and the benefits of switching to a low latency and high performance all flash array instead.