Identify the successor to contemporary storage technologies

Determine which data storage technology will supersede contemporary computer storage technologies, with candidates including Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions and DNA-based storage, in order to understand the future replacement for current mainstream storage systems.

Background

The paper discusses the slowing improvements in conventional storage hardware and the flattening cost per gigabyte, highlighting physical limits encountered by HDD and SSD technologies. In this context, the authors note that proposed replacement technologies such as SCM and DNA-based storage are still in the research stage, leaving unresolved which technology will become the dominant successor. This uncertainty motivates the broader need for improved storage management techniques explored in the paper.