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Storage: Flash is the Future
Not Adobe’s Flash, but Flash solid state storage devices. EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci says that flash solid state drives (SSDs) are ready to revolutionize the storage business. Current single-level cell SSDs are on the market now, but expensive. In the wings is a new type of SSD called the multi-level cell, and production costs for the new technology is expected to be considerably cheaper.
With the introduction of multi-level SSDs, Tucci predicts that the technology will become the storage media of choice. He describes it as being phenomenally faster and more reliable than current options. He said that flash SSDs are “the one thing that will change the storage industry more than anything else over the next 10 years.”
SSDs will usher in a new wave of technology based on solid state. Tucci thinks even if Flash SSD itself is short-lived, other newer solid state technologies will follow. Prices are still going to be expensive in the short term, but EMC is predicting that by 2010 SSDs will be competitive with rotating disk technologies.
While EMC is not the manufacturer of the solid-state chip, it plans to aggressively start deploying the chip in their devices, and with the volume of machines that EMC can sell, it is expected that prices for the chip will drift lower.
