Moore’s Law Realities for Recording Systems and Memory Storage Components: HDD, Tape, NAND, and Optical
Observation and Moore's law discussion demonstrated with data from 9-year storage trends, assembled from publically available industry reporting sources
By Francis Pelletier | December 29, 2017 at 2:57 pmAIP Advances as published an article written by Robert E. Fontana Jr. and Gary M. Decad, IBM Almaden Research Center, IBM Systems, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA.
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Abstract: “This paper describes trends in the storage technologies associated with Linear Tape Open (LTO) Tape cartridges, hard disk drives (HDD), and NAND Flash based storage devices including solid-state drives (SSD). This technology discussion centers on the relationship between cost/bit and bit density and, specifically on how the Moore’s Law perception that areal density doubling and cost/bit halving every two years is no longer being achieved for storage based components. This observation and a Moore’s Law Discussion are demonstrated with data from nine-year storage technology trends, assembled from publically available industry reporting sources.“
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