“Solid-state drives are superior to hard drives in every way but one: they’re faster, lighter, and less fragile, but they’re also more expensive,” Chris Mills reports for Gizmodo. “The last one has been the only thing keeping HDDs alive, and that thread appears to be getting thinner by the day.”
“According to a report by TrendForce, SSD prices per gigabyte have been making a cliff-like graph over the last few years: from 99 cents a gigabyte in 2012, we’re down to 39 cents,” Mills reports. “We are approaching a glorious storage singularity, where hard drives and SSDs cost the same, and spinning magnetic platters cease to be a thing anyone carries around.”
Mills reports, “According to TrendForce, this will happen for smaller drives sometime in 2017, which is when you can expect 256GB SSDs and HDDs to cost the same.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Spinning platters. How quaint!
On the rare occasion that we use a non-SSD Mac, the experience is jarring, as we’ve become used to the speed of the SSDs in our MacBook Airs and iMacs. It’s a huge difference. Once you go SSD, you won’t go back. — MacDailyNews Take, April 9, 2012
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