Say "Good Bye" to HDD.

[generalsir]

Goodbye to HDD? Man I still use old 80GB IDE HDD ,and I dont have money for anything new

[Microbit001]

Invention of new thing doesn't mean a complete disappearance of old things,ssd was evolved from hdd.So it's take some time for son to take over throne.

[Balthazar]

I've said that more almost 5 years ago.

[brendanjhwu]

Even with SSD being significantly cheaper than before... It would still be way to costy. With 4TB of SSD you could possibly even buy a NVidia Titan Z GPU

[Lauda]

Even with SSD being significantly cheaper than before... It would still be way to costy. With 4TB of SSD you could possibly even buy a NVidia Titan Z GPU

So exactly what would you need 4 TB SSD storage for? Stop storing so many "movies". 
500GB would be perfect I assume to make it your main drive. This is enough (!) room for the OS and most programs. Then a 1-2TB second HDD would do for anything else.
The prices still have to come down if you ask me.

[blacksails]

in my country you can find SSD 320Gb 50-60$ is not high price

OMG, where do you live?

[Balthazar]

"$X for Y GB" is absolutely senseless statement.

C'mon, stop thinking about volume/price ratio, it doesn't mean anything. There are a lot of different flash and buffer memory types, controllers and firmware developers. Chip makers and device vendors want to have unlimited queue of stupid customers who will buy any shit without paying any attention to hardware or software details. Don't let them to fool you.

[3x2]

SSD is still expensive & what will be the price of this 4tb SSD?

[MegaTech]

in my country you can find SSD 320Gb 50-60$ is not high price

In my country this is the cheapest 256GB SSD i could find. Transcend 256GB SATA3 TS256GSSD340 and cost about 151 U.S. dollars

[BitcoinStuff]

Not so sure about good bye, prbably tha would happen in a couple of years.

[xXTMC3Xx]

Not so sure about good bye, prbably tha would happen in a couple of years.

I could see it happening if the price to make a SSD become extremely cheap.

[HashFarmer]

HDD will always be cheaper then SSD, so no. HDD is here to stay...

[DrG]

HDD will always be cheaper then SSD, so no. HDD is here to stay...

Is that like punch cards will always be cheaper than magnetic storage tapes?

Is that like storage tapes will always be cheaper than magnetic disks?

[srgkrgkj]

Sandisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.

"We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs," Manuel Martull, SanDisk's product & solutions marketing director, stated in an email reply to Computerworld.


http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248070/SanDisk_announces_4TB_SSD_hopes_for_8TB_next_year

SSD prices are still too high to abandon HDD.

HDD will live on for a long time ....

[omgbossis21]

Recently switched to a ssd drive, better than a processor, board and memory upgrade all at once!

[LiteCoinGuy]

Sandisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.

"We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs," Manuel Martull, SanDisk's product & solutions marketing director, stated in an email reply to Computerworld.


http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248070/SanDisk_announces_4TB_SSD_hopes_for_8TB_next_year

SSD prices are still too high to abandon HDD.

buy one with 256 GB and you will feel the boost 

[Lauda]

SSD prices are still too high to abandon HDD.

buy one with 256 GB and you will feel the boost 

Well I luckily got a refurbished laptop for cheap and it has an SSD on it. With the same "bloat" programs on startup, it's like 5-6 times faster on boot and the difference is very (!) noticeable.
I would upgrade my Computer right now if I had the money.

[Omikifuse]

Even with SSD being significantly cheaper than before... It would still be way to costy. With 4TB of SSD you could possibly even buy a NVidia Titan Z GPU

So exactly what would you need 4 TB SSD storage for? Stop storing so many "movies". 
500GB would be perfect I assume to make it your main drive. This is enough (!) room for the OS and most programs. Then a 1-2TB second HDD would do for anything else.
The prices still have to come down if you ask me.

Many data science & statistic stuff and others generates a ton of data, that will need to be accessed at a fast speed.

So there is demand for the SSD high capacity disks, even if they are more expensive

[DodoriousMaximus]

Damn, 4TB of SSD? Thats legit nuts. I wonder how expensive that is.

[BiTJack]

Probably be more than $2,000 if you calculate it by price per gig.
http://www.geek.com/chips/sandisk-unveils-a-monster-4tb-ssd-1592769/