Big Data technology has seen some milestones in its long and rich history. Hard Disk Drives came along in the 1950s and changed the game for Data Analytics. This proved serviceable for 50 years until the advent of Solid State Drives. This made things much faster and quieter and less energy to use, but what about parallel processing such as AI workloads? AI technologies utilize many Terabytes of data with future outlooks going into the Petabyte category.

Thus, the Flash Memory vehicle was born and with it comes fewer problems and more efficient data solutions. Memory can be accessed instantly without a platter spinning around and accessing data in the old way. The HDD way is archaic and inconceivable to deal with the amounts of data that Big Data sees this day and age. The noise of the numerous fans dealing with all the heat being dissipated from the numerous HDD’s being utilized in the Data rack will be a thing of the past.