The Path › Storage & Performance 速 Storage & Performance SSD vs spindle, RAID levels, tiering, NVMe, all-flash economics. 速 Spindle to silicon: why all-flash won the enterprise 5 min · published 2026-05-31 The economic crossover happened around 2021 and most SMB infrastructure has not caught up. A working framework for when SSD is the cheaper choice and when it is not.