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Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2022

Disk drives, tape drives, and SSDs will all go away

“We will have much more in-memory data, systems that literally live in real memory, and the notion of disk drives and tape drives and even SSDs will all go away.”

Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:35 a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance

Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2022

Levine: LiDAR sensor costs will eventually fall to 50 cents

“The first LiDAR for a Google car was 75,000 dollars. Now LIDAR is sub 500 dollars, and I'll bet you, and this is just like, there are no self-driving cars out there. I bet you it goes to 50 cents in the not-too-distant future.”

Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 23:01 The End of Cloud Computing

Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2019

Levine: Flash storage costs will soon reach parity with spinning media

“We can literally see in the not too distant future the cost of flash storage devices being the same price as, you know, spinning media, and that's going to be very compelling.”

Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:06 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future

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