The problem is that flash storage grows as fast as traditional storage, and sadly, hard drives are MUCH largers.
For the price of 32 GB SSD, you could get 750-1000GB of storage on a HDD. I have a hard time justifying paying $400 for 64 GB SSD, when I can get 500GB in my laptop for less, and that 500GB drive is gonna drop in price just as fast as the SSD
I think a lot of people don't see that problem though... They see it as incredibly fast data storage, low power requirements, and less chances of failure, even in RAID 0. So... as valid as your argument is... if flash can indeed prove itself as a viable alternative to traditional HDD's... who knows... one day relatively soon (15-20 years from now) hard drives may very well be a complete thing of the past. Some people just like to jump on the bandwagon early, some do it because they can warrant the price for their setup, and some just feel like it... In the end... it doesn't matter how prices drop... reliability and speed will probably end up winning out. GR
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The problem is that flash storage grows as fast as traditional storage, and sadly, hard drives are MUCH largers.
For the price of 32 GB SSD, you could get 750-1000GB of storage on a HDD. I have a hard time justifying paying $400 for 64 GB SSD, when I can get 500GB in my laptop for less, and that 500GB drive is gonna drop in price just as fast as the SSD
I think a lot of people don't see that problem though...
They see it as incredibly fast data storage, low power requirements, and less chances of failure, even in RAID 0.
So... as valid as your argument is... if flash can indeed prove itself as a viable alternative to traditional HDD's... who knows... one day relatively soon (15-20 years from now) hard drives may very well be a complete thing of the past.
Some people just like to jump on the bandwagon early, some do it because they can warrant the price for their setup, and some just feel like it...
In the end... it doesn't matter how prices drop... reliability and speed will probably end up winning out.
GR
(Sorry if this was redundant... I'm tired)
I can't wait to have a 64GB C: drive housing windows, my paging file, and my current game of choice.
I'll have a 500GB or whatever is $100 at the time as well for storage and 2nd OS if I get ambitious.