SSDs Shipments to outsell HDD shipments by 2021
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Emille
Yasss. Can you imagine all those office machines across the world, reception desks waiting forever as pdfs, excell documents wtc taking forever to open, and then bam, storage revolution happens and every pc had an ssd.
Internet speeds and network speeds are still a problem. But hard drive limitations are a much bigger proplem.
Can't wait till the change.
kapu
All computers in my office are SSD equiped. It changes alot for daily work even for pdf documents 🙂
NewTRUMP Order
You have to remember all of the countries that don't have the resources or are slow to bring aboard new technology. I remember the days of tapes on computers!http://cdn.ihs.com/Technology/SharePointImages/PublishingImages/Press%20Releases/2013-05-02_Storage.jpg
schmidtbag
I'm a bit surprised it is expected to take that long. HDDs are now really only seen in super high-capacity situations (where they're still significantly cheaper than SSDs) or in budget PCs. The average person doesn't need more than 1TB, and SSDs tend to get too expensive once you reach 1TB capacities. I'm seeing devices everywhere starting to ship with SSDs as the only option, and almost everyone who builds their own PCs gets at least 1 SSD.
waltc3
Considering you can buy 1TB HDD's @7200rpms for $50 right now, it's going to be awhile before SSD prices get that low...;) This estimate probably includes similar price reductions in SSD's, which remains to be seen. I think SSD's are great and I love mine, but they have a long way to go before becoming competitive in either price or capacity with HDDs.
Emille
Ricepudding
Emille
schmidtbag
Ricepudding
Bigbendan
Can someone please tell the HD manufacturers to stop making ssd drives with capacity less than 2T
If it's less than 2T I'm just gonna buy nvme
The only place in the market for ssd is in high capacity, otherwise they are useless.
Or please tel) your friends to stop buying low capacity ssd drives as they are a scam by the manufacturers
Thank you
schmidtbag
Irenicus
schmidtbag - what are you talking about? The average person needs 1tb???? Ummm. No. Probably about 4. Most people I know, even those who are clueless about how to use PCs for the most part, download TV shows and movies to their hard drives and have 2-4tb. Your estimation of 1tb is pretty far off target IMO
Also, your idea that SSDs would be more popular than HDDs sooner because people don't need more than 1tb, shows your lack of knowledge on the subject. You seem unaware of how much SSDs cost compared to HDDs and also this varies per country. Here in Australia everything is more expensive than in Europe (except petrol) so people are slower to pick up new technologies. I can get around 6tb of HDD for 1 x 500gb SSD.
Everyone needs storage. SSDs are mostly advantageous for the OS, games and other HD intensive applications. For everything else, it's not necessary.
Aura89
0blivious
It doesn't matter if the average person only needs 500GB (which I don't believe at all). A standard mechanical is FAR cheaper than the same sized SSD.
Wanna know what the average person needs? Look at the average new PCs for sale and you'll see. To me, 500GB seems kind of small for the average user. If they do any kind of home videos or a lot of pictures, they'll run out of space pretty quickly as new content is much larger than past content was. Look it up. Almost every new PC comes with a 1TB HDD. That's what the market thinks. It doesn't care about forum rants.
Yes. I'm not even sure how this is a debate. Clearly, SSDs are better but they cost a LOT more and come in much smaller sizes. Pictures, videos, music, programs... all of this takes up a lot of space but it doesn't need to load at light speed. No need to put it on an SSD at 6-10x the cost per/GB.
Aura89
schmidtbag
NewTRUMP Order
I can believe the average user uses less than 1tb of storage. With access to the cloud and people using their smartphones more and more for music, watching movies, surfing the internet etc., peoples need for storage hasn't gone up that much. Not including the os, 1tb of storage is very large and sufficient for the average user in 2017. I have 960 gb ssd , my games and everything else on it. Its one year old and I have 527gb on it, including os, and from time to time I remove games and stuff I don't use. I have a 1 tb hd from another computer I thought I would need hooked up also and have yet to use it in one year! So I do believe the average, key word is AVERAGE, user needs less than 1 tb of storage;) Btw I checked the 1tb hd I moved over from another computer and it had 327gb on it. That drive came from a computer I used for six years.