You might be interested in our recent blogpost, white paper and Eric&#x27;s USENIX keynote: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudplatform.googleblog.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;Google-seeks-new-disks-for-data-centers.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudplatform.googleblog.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;Google-seeks-ne...</a> .<p>tl;dr: We&#x27;re definitely still looking to buy spinning drives, but maybe they don&#x27;t need to fit into a 2.5&quot; or 3.5&quot; PC sized slot.