When will SSDs replace HDDs?

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Robert_J

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When do you guys think solid state drives will become the primary storage system?

Do you ever think they will eventually be the price of a standard disk drive?

i would hate to spend $400 on one now then in a few years see them completely replace Hdds and be far less expensive
 
Not until SSDs have actual data on their lifetimes. Until SSDs overcome their write-limit barrier, I don't believe they'll be replacing HDDs.
 
Not that quick really, but SSDs will kick HDDs from the position of the primary system drive. I do suspect SSD+HDD systems to be common. The NAND flash may even be integrated on motherboard in the future.

But HDDs will stay for some time. Their cost per GB is just way lower and won't change rapidly anytime soon. The NAND industry would have to grow alot to be able to supply enough chips to meet market demand; right now the demand is higher than the supply; keeping NAND prices high.
 
Eventually but it will take several years. It won't be anytime soon due to the cost factor. I have replaced the system drive on 2 of my systems with SSD drives but the cost is too much for data drives right now. Also they will need to do something about the life of the SSD which is limited by the number of writes to memory cells.
 
Think about it. 3TB and 4TB drives this year. Which means 12 months from now those will be $150 or less.

SSD's still don't have the adoption rate that puts them in every PC. So pretty much as they get bigger/ cheaper demand will be higher and thus prices won't fall in a linear fashion.

Computing model will end up being cloud/ NAS/ home server storage with big disks + SSD system disks within the next few years.

Finally, as "bad" of performance as traditional disks have, they are still plenty fast enough for media streaming, and even document serving... which takes up tons of storage and is perfect for spindle disks.
 
Cerulean said:
Not until SSDs have actual data on their lifetimes. Until SSDs overcome their write-limit barrier, I don't believe they'll be replacing HDDs.
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SLC SSD can already do a reasonable job about this. Now you just have to wait until its price comes down.
 
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