Originally Posted by
Busyman™
Also I don't see SSDs replacing HDDs anytime soon due to cost and drive size.
Wanna bet?
SSDs have three major things going for them that will soon render mechanical (even hybrid ) drives obsolete:
-Physical size
-Low power consumption and heat signature
-Practical immunity from physical shock
All three benefits are directly applicable to laptops and laptops will dominate the future market and thus, the hardware requirements.
Cost is of no consequence whatsoever- look at the current price structure of RAM (DDR2 is absurdly cheap)- as it's only a function of production facilities and they've been ramping up tremendously. Major memory makers have actually
curtailed production in an effort to stabilize prices and profits (think diamonds and DeBeers here...).
Again, I ask you to look at the history of HDDs...five years ago SATA was an exotic and expensive technology and now the world's largest drive maker (Seagate) has dropped PATA drives altogether and SATA is ubiquitous.
SSDs will (I believe) follow the exact same adoption path...maybe even faster.
It's simply too good a technology not to succeed and , unlike many other advances...like SLI, for instance, it solves problems for a very wide spectrum of users.
As long as I'm proselytizing... I also think the obsession with giant storage capabilities on personal computers is soon to end.
With the increasing spread of web based apps/storage, why would you need to carry all that data on your machine?
Hit the web, stream what you want and then move on...no need to actually have it on your hard drive.
Google probably
will rule the Earth, sooner rather than later.
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