

We’re not predicting what anybody else is going to do because who knows at the moment.Ĭhris Evans: That is a good point actually I should have said latest enterprise data storage as well even more to qualify that because we don’t know what’s happening in the general sort of storage industry for keeping stuff in lockups and things like that. Martin: In storage that is with particularly what’s happening in storage. Well let’s do our stuff then and see if we can go through and work out what we think is going to happen in 2020. I couldn’t say.Ĭhris Mellor: They’re a lovely bunch of people.Ĭhris Evans: Good. Maybe you didn’t write anything about them at all. A lot of startups.Ĭhris Evans: Yes and doing lots of writing about it I guess. You didn’t make that one Chris because you were off going gallivanting in the US again, one of your trips.Ĭhris Mellor: I loved the IT Press Tour meeting. And actually, we didn’t really make any serious predictions. It is 2020 and we did our sort of recap of the success or not of our predictions a couple of weeks ago. You’ve just highlighted the fact, Martin, that it is the start of the new year. That’s a bit naughty of me, isn’t it?Ĭhris Evans: Yeah, probably. Martin: If you’ve got an French listeners, they can confirm or deny this.Ĭhris Evans: I lived in France for three years and I don’t honestly remember what you did. Martin: Supposedly in France, it’s acceptable to wish people Happy New Year until the end of January. Happy New Year everybody.Ĭhris Evans: Well we’re a days in aren’t we? How are you doing?Ĭhris Mellor: Hello, Chris. Speaker 1: This is Storage Unpacked, subscribe at .Ĭhris Evans: Hi, this is Chris Evans recording another Storage Unpacked podcast and I’m joined by Martin and Chris this week.


Will 2020 be the year we see multi-actuator take off?ĭoes old media continue into decline as the new tape? Could punched cards make a comeback? We think it’s unlikely. Hard drives are at 20TB and growing, but suffering the challenges of throughput. QLC increases in layers, while PLC (penta-level cell) flash is being mooted as increasingly more practical. This trend is expected to continue, but what micro-level advancements are being made? At the macro level, capacities continue to grow for SSDs and HDDs year on year. We should point out that this is only for enterprise storage and not a forecast on the world in general! This week Chris and Martin are joined by Chris Mellor for what is turning into an annual look at storage technology for the year ahead.
