SSD's will soon provide more storage than hard drives?

[Amer]

Tbh I never believed this was possible until Samsung released their 1TB and still are releasing more storage capacity. And now look at SanDisk :3.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/181809-sandisks-collosal-4tb-ssd-does-this-mean-ssds-will-soon-provide-more-storage-than-hard-drives

Here's a small quote if you're too lazy to open up the link and read it;

"Conventional wisdom has predicted that this will remain the case indefinitely, which is why it was surprising to see SanDisk announce an upcoming 4TB SSD. Granted, this is an enterprise drive, intended as a replacement for SAS HDDs — but many consumer technologies start off in the enterprise before hitting dramatically better price points in the mainstream. Could this signal a sea change in SSD capacities? Will SSDs eventually provide more storage than HDDs?"

For those saying this is a 'Re-Post' it actually isn't this is talking about how SSD's are going to remove HDD's soon

[Nineshadow]

So?Who cares if it costs more than $10 000...

[ZetZet]

So?Who cares if it costs more than $1000...

For now.

[Fred Castellum]

Good now I don't need to keep buying mechanical drives... 

[CCap]

It doubtfully will interfere with the pricing of mainstream SSD's for a few years. I don't see HDD's going away for a while. 

[Amer]

So?Who cares if it costs more than $10 000...

It won't cost '$1,000.00' nor will it cost '$10,000.00'. SSD 's are getting cheaper by the day. If they're going to 'replace' HDD's then obviously SSD's are not going to be expensive at all.

[DarrenP]

Old news man.

 

AND Repost:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/146680-sandisk-announces-4tb-ssds-8tb-16tb-ssds-to-follow/?hl=%2Bsandisk+%2Bssd

[KakaoDj]

Of course they will. Today, SSDs are placed in 2.5 inch enclosures, and pack a mighty 4TB of storage. Just imagine how much storage a 3.5 inch SSD could have...

 

Also, we already have a topic on this: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/146680-sandisk-announces-4tb-ssds-8tb-16tb-ssds-to-follow/?hl=sandisk

[The_Strict_Nein]

Hard disks still have quite a few years left in them

 

I can get 1TB HDD for £40, while a 1TB SSD is at least around £400

[lachyman]

In the future they will sure replace mechanical drives, but that time there will surely be another storage tech 10x faster than an SSD, like now, with limited capacity and higher price.

[AlwaysFSX]

Oh.. you can buy several terabyte HDDs now.. Yeah and they do happen to break eventually. 

[Mooshi]

This isn't really new news. Manufacturers had this capability for awhile now for high capacity SSDs. The only real problem is price and the limited write cycles on consumer grade SSDs. You'd kill your flash chips before you'd fill all 4TB of the thing and if we have a 4TB SSD made out lf SLC nand, good luck explaining to your significant other why you bought a single component for your computer that costs as much as a house.

[Nineshadow]

It won't cost '$1,000.00' nor will it cost '$10,000.00'. SSD 's are getting cheaper by the day. If they're going to 'replace' HDD's then obviously SSD's are not going to be expensive at all.

Well,that's the price for enterprise SSDs.So far,we can get 1TB SSDs for around $600.How the hell is that "not expensive at all"? Yes,they could be cheaper,but why would manufacturers do that?More expensive = more profit.

[soup]

Pipe n slippers :-

     When I started there were no hard drives fitted at all (I remember having to load via a tape drive) .  First system I had at home had a 40 Meg (yes Meg) hard drive.

 

 

  Crystal ball :-

The way things are going there is going to be an Eprom on the motherboard containing the OS (similar to Chrome OS [A stripped down OS but mainly a browser]) and a return to the days of no hard drive, everything being stored on the cloud .

 

Yes there are 'speedbumps', will cloud storage be as secure as a NAS what about situations where there is no access (no mains electricity can be solved by having batteries ).

 

Yes that is only for the mainstream there will still be a demand/need for drives, but 99% of systems wont have them.

[terrytek]

Aw crap. Now it's time to start hugging my hard drives till they go. Bye bye hard drives. *sniff sniff*

[Amer]

Aw crap. Now it's time to start hugging my hard drives till they go. Bye bye hard drives. *sniff sniff*

They probably won't go it's that sales for HDD's will drop. And maybe after like 10+ years they will discontinue them. You never know :3.

[terrytek]

They probably won't go it's that sales for HDD's will drop. And maybe after like 10+ years they will discontinue them. You never know :3.

Well, shit.

[ericlee30]

Hell yes, i have been waiting for this for a long time now