When do people see the hard drive becoming obsolete?
The thought came to me when I looked up HDDs the other day. I didn't realise they were so cheap! 400GB drives available for less than 50p a gig! Yet it seems to me that while size is important, SCSI shows that it's not everything. Therefore I'm sure that eventually something else (flash memory?) will replace them as a narrowing of the price gap means that their advantages will outweigh their smaller size, until their increased popularity leads to a more rapid increase in size, until something replaces them...
Do people see HDDs becoming obsolete? Replacing them with something like flash memory makes sense as you lose the moving parts, remove issues such as fragmentation... but right now it costs too much, but that won't always be the case, as HDDs and RAM have shown.
What do you think and when do you think it will happen?
The thought came to me when I looked up HDDs the other day. I didn't realise they were so cheap! 400GB drives available for less than 50p a gig! Yet it seems to me that while size is important, SCSI shows that it's not everything. Therefore I'm sure that eventually something else (flash memory?) will replace them as a narrowing of the price gap means that their advantages will outweigh their smaller size, until their increased popularity leads to a more rapid increase in size, until something replaces them...
Do people see HDDs becoming obsolete? Replacing them with something like flash memory makes sense as you lose the moving parts, remove issues such as fragmentation... but right now it costs too much, but that won't always be the case, as HDDs and RAM have shown.
What do you think and when do you think it will happen?