A battle of strength, which one do you pick?

We who don’t pick the little sister

I want you to pick a hard Han disk?

As the storage market rapidly evolves toward PCIe® NVMe™ drives, Micron has created the world’s first and fastest NVMe SSDs with capacities exceeding 10TB , and has contributed to the development of the NVMe interface from the beginning as a sponsoring organization .

However, at the beginning of this year, we took an unexpected step in the industry and released the new Micron 5200 series SSD , which is also the world's first enterprise-class SATA SSD built on 64-layer 3D NAND technology.

Many journalists and analysts have asked the same question: "Why release new SATA hard drives?"

The reason is simple: the SATA SSD market segment has a long way to go, and we have a unique opportunity to create a leading-edge drive that stands out from the crowd . NVMe is undoubtedly the interface of the future, but when that future will arrive is still a question. We would be remiss if we ignored SATA SSDs and the customers who rely on this interface for their storage needs.

AnandTech's Billy Tallis commented:

Paul Alcorn of Tom's Hardware believes:

• The number of existing SATA hard drive slots far exceeds that of any other interface

• Currently, 70% of all enterprise SSDs sold are SATA drives

• In terms of SSDs, the current market share data (by interface) is ranked as follows: SATA, SAS, NVMe By 2019, this order may become NVMe, SATA, SAS (author's prediction)

• In 2016, only about 14% of servers were actually equipped with SSDs

• In 2017, approximately 15% of servers were equipped with SSDs

  Data from IDC, Gartner and Micron Technology

The bottom line: SSD adoption has yet to reach mainstream levels. Hard drives still dominate, but SATA is the interface best suited to replace them.

Micron's 5200 SSD leads the way in read-intensive enterprise SATA capacity, performance, reliability and overall infrastructure value, making it a natural choice to replace hard drives.

It's easy for SSD fans to agree that the HDD era is over, and despite the industry announcing that SSDs have replaced them, the reality is that they haven't yet. It's exciting that NVMe can replace them, but it requires a fundamental platform transformation, and that will take time. A lot of things will happen before then. Maybe the HDD will finally be replaced?