Google released a study that severely undercut the performance guarantees of major disk vendors. The University of Illinois researchers said disk failure contributes to 20% to 55% of storage subsystem failures. Other physical interconnects like broken wires, shelf enclosure power outages, and HBA failures accounted for anywhere from 27% to 68% of problems. So as I look out on the horizon and see solid state, flash, even holographic storage, I wonder what it will take for the industry to wean itself off of spinning disk.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/a-paradigm-spins-down