RPM drives will be obsolete in...

[kirkbross]

What year do you think drives with moving parts will be almost entirely obsolete? (i.e. all drives in a computer, including boot drive, will be solid state).

[newtech]

I'd say around 2025.

[pointycollars]

My bet would be around 2013.

[richthomas]

considering flash memory is US$15 per GB which is $15 more than hard disks i would think manufactures wont be selling computers with stock flash SSDs for at least another 10 years. im guessing 2020. all users wont take flash seriously until it reaches a capacity of > 500 GB

$7500 disks anyone?

[Roy]

The date I've heard bandied about is June 10, 2014. And, by the way, that happens to be a Tuesday.

[Muzzway]

December 21, 2012: the end of the world.

[kirkbross]

December 21, 2012: the end of the world....yeah but what do the Mayans know? And did they use a 2.8 or 3.0 GHz Muddintosh to calculate?

[fernmeister]

Obsolete - not before 2015. But, Apple might drop RPM drives in notebooks by 2011.

[surflordca]

Obsolete - not before 2015. But, Apple might drop RPM drives in notebooks by 2011.

Only for the notebooks built in 2008 :rolleyes:

[macz1]

if you double capacity and halve the price every year....
I would say in 4 years SSD could be a very interesting option for higher-end applications

[gnasher729]

What year do you think drives with moving parts will be almost entirely obsolete? (i.e. all drives in a computer, including boot drive, will be solid state).

What do you mean by "RPM drive"? That expression is pure nonsense. Are you saying that you have an RPM washing machine, an RPM mixer, a car with an RPM engine?

What you mean is a "hard disk drive". You see, a drive with a _disk_ inside to store data, and not a flexible disk like a floppy disk or Bernoulli disk, but a _hard_ disk. That is the proper name for it. Anything else is nonsense.

And the last time there was a battle between disk drives and solid state drives, the disk drives won. Extra points if you can find out which year and what technology lost.