At last month’s FAST (File and Storage Technologies) conference researchers from UCSD and Microsoft Research presented a paper, titled The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory, that’s put the rosy all-flash-all-the-time future predicted by some in doubt for the long term. The gist of the paper’s argument is that the physics of flash, and the researcher’s testing, indicate that as flash density increases, the life and performance of flash will degrade to the point that by 2024 flash will no longer be a viable solution.
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