Huawei's SSD-tape hybrid storage device could replace hard drives.

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Huawei has developed a 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device called the magneto-electric disk (MED). This technology combines the speed of SSDs with the capacity of tape, targeting warm and cold storage applications while reducing reliance on American technology. The MED device offers significant benefits, including reduced power consumption, lower total cost of ownership, and simplified storage management by integrating SSD and tape into one unit. Future iterations aim to further optimize storage density and efficiency.

Huawei develops massive 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device — first-gen MED drive targets warm and cold storage

<p>Amazing innovation. there was a time people getting on moon with around 2 kb ram. Nowadays computer with 8gb ram feels slow.</p>


<p>growing up, one of my neighbors’ adult son was a photographer at NASA. This was around the year 2000. We had a computer with megabytes of storage. gigabytes were on the horizon, but still a barely fathomable amount of data. NASA was already measuring in terabytes. i still remember thinking that had to be more than enough storage, and here we are.</p>
