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RPM drives will be obsolete in...

kirkbross

kirkbross

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