Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
@CaramelZappa Sure SSD's aren't a match for HDD's... but ask yourself why that is? They could easily make a 2TB and behind SSD in a 1.8 inch form factor. But like with all new tech, they just want to be overly greedy and act like it's some new cutting edge tech that we need to pay 10 times as much for. CD's, DVD's, and now Blu Ray are the same exact way. They increase the capacity a bit each time they redo it, and charge 10 times the price. I remember paying 300 bucks for a 24x CD burner not even 10 years ago. Now I can buy them for 20-30 bucks AND they have DVD burning as well... SSD's are never going anywhere if they keep releasing slow and ancient tech in smaller form factors. I for one, certainly don't want a 5400 rpm drive in anything I own, regardless of how small it is. Ultimately this will fail because it has moving parts. Sure SSD's fail eventually too, but if they keep developing them, I'm sure they will overcome that issue. HDD's will never overcome that.
Learn to use the reply button, first of all.
Tech doesn't just move lightning quick. They need to work on production lines and do lots of R&D to make something as fancy as a 2tb 1.8" form factor. Even then, it isn't necessarily cheap for them to make the chips. Yes, the prices are ridiculously high now, for early adopters, and eventually they will go down. That's how new tech works. In the meantime, I'm really glad I have the option to get 320gb in this size, at a half decent price.
Oh, and I doubt making SSD's last forever is high on their to-do list, the more of them fail, the more people need to buy to replace them.
Do you honestly think Intel has 1THz 128 core processors and is releasing them bit by bit, just to make money?
How dare Moore's Law take all my money! It's an outrage!!