SSDs will reach price and capacity parity with HDDs within two years

HDD & SDD's will never reach price parity. The chaper SDD's get, HDD's will do the same, until it's not commercially viable to produce HDD's and comsumer's want the faster, more environmentally friendly, quiet SDD's, then the HDD will go the way of the Dodo...I mean VHS tapes.
 
Squid Surprise said:
Proof please?
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No proof, just my 2cents. Think about 2 tech, similar but in a way totally different. One with moving parts, way slow and decades old. The other is new 'ish, fast & can only get faster n better, quiet, doesnt yuse much elctricity and is all the rave now. It's the first thing most ppl will mention when asked 1 thing to upgrade a PC for better performance. I cant see a future where a 5Gb SDD and a 5Gb HDD will cost the same. But if ur thinking that a 1Gb SDD for example will start to cost the same as a say, 10Gb HDD, thats comparing apples to oranges. Price parity means same price, same specification of the 2 products.
Maybe SDD will always continue to get cheaper, so will HDD's. A future 100Gb HDD & a 10Gb SDD, both for $100 US, that price parity?
 
I want an SDD bad. I currently have a Hybrid Toshiba 1 Tb drive in my laptop. It's way better than the best HDD, even 10,000 rpm drives, but doesn't come close to SDD speeds. Only thing stopping me if my drive is in perfect working order, laptop is still new and prices sortta.
For those that don't have the finances for an SDD, but want faster boot times, faster loading of apps, better read & write speeds, I definitely recommend a Hybrid drive. Toshiba 1 Tb with 8Gb of SDD cache, & heaps cheaper than a proper SDD, just a tab more than the traditional HDD.
 
So despite the myriad of posts here... and elsewhere... and people giving evidence that prices actually might become equal, you're stating, on your own "2 cents", that prices will NEVER become equal?

I suggest you do some research, find some evidence, or stop posting...
 
cliffordcooley said:
Just like we need to find evidence that prices will become equal before we post.
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That would be the report we are all commenting on... really? Maybe read first?

When someone posts an article on here... and you decide to comment on here that "it's SO wrong".... I feel you need to provide proof! The person who wrote the article provided links to proof - if you disagree, then PROVE IT!!

I don't think that's so much to ask...
 
Ur right cliffordcooley, prices will be equal in the future, which I cant wait for :) I'll get an internal one, and a massize external SSD. Other ppl can continue to buy the mechanical drives for all I care. I got a need for speed
 
He didn't say that actually... he said the opposite... I don't think we really know what will happen in the future - by definition, it's the future, and unknowable :)

The article makes some good points, and since it's what I WANT to believe, I will until it's proven otherwise :)

Saying that, mechanical HDs are still pretty good for backups - if you don't mind the spin-up times, they can still transfer files pretty quickly - it's the initial seek times which really suck on them compared to SSDs... So if you're strapped for cash now, you can grab a "small" 128gb HD just for Windows, and put your data on a mechanical HD and you'll still see enormous speed improvements.
 
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Doesn't matter - when you are commenting ON an article posted by someone - if you disagree with it, you need to provide proof!!

The onus is on the person commenting - otherwise, why bother even coming to this website in the first place?

If the article itself contained no evidence - my first comment would be, "this article is BS because it contains no proof, just the author's opinion..."

But this article DID contain sources - in fact, it's in the very first paragraph that it's based on a specific report...

So again - if you disagree, the onus is on YOU to say WHY YOU DISAGREE!!!
 
Squid Surprise said:
So again - if you disagree, the onus is on YOU to say WHY YOU DISAGREE!!!
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That is precisely what doesn't matter, when there is not a fact to prove wrong. For the record I do believe the article, but when it is all opinion, I'm not gonna tell an opposing side to prove their standpoint. That would be no different than proving God does or does not exist. Neither one will win!
 
I don't think you fully understand the point I'm trying to make here... opinions are all well and good - provided they are prefaced with "this is my opinion" or some such...

My problem is with people making STATEMENTS (such as "SSDs and HDDs will never have cost parity) in response to published articles on here as if they are facts... Everyone is entitled to their opinions - but don't go misleading other people into thinking what you say is accurate unless you can BACK IT UP!!! It's a slap in the face to the person or people who write the articles in the first place - not to mention being journalistically (I'm making that word up!) irresponsible.
 
NO!!! The article cites a REPORT... the people making statements cite NOTHING!!!!

If I DID have a problem with the report - it would be upon ME to provide citations to other sources that refute it!! That's how these things work... or at least... how they SHOULD work!!
 
hojnikb said:
What a load of bollocks.
Its gonna take more than 2 years to reach price parity with HDDs (basicly same cost per GB/TB).

Also, its very unlikely that we will see SSDs past 8-10TB next year. There is hardly market for 1TB drives, let alone 2TB or more.

Just a bunch of uneducated speculation for clicks.
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hojnikb said:
What a load of bollocks.
Its gonna take more than 2 years to reach price parity with HDDs (basicly same cost per GB/TB).

Also, its very unlikely that we will see SSDs past 8-10TB next year. There is hardly market for 1TB drives, let alone 2TB or more.

Just a bunch of uneducated speculation for clicks.
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YEAH ,I agree your point ,its very unlikely that we will see SSDs past 8-10TB next year . And maybe 2TB SSD is not easily found in the market ,but the 1TB our company absolutely can provide .
 
It's been two years and nothing has changed. I think the HDD has a few more years before it is eclipsed by (cheap and capacious) SSD's.
 
Jeffrey S said:
It's been two years and nothing has changed.
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That's because the SSD market is milking consumers. That's fine though if they don't want to drop prices, I can manage without upgrading the SSDs I do have. I can't say it is their loss, because someone out there is paying the price. If they wasn't prices would fall.
 
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