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The big difference is that the overall performance of spinning disks is not much different than what it was 10 years ago. However, a best-in-class 2018 SSD is a

The big difference is that the overall performance of spinning disks is not much different than what it was 10 years ago. However, a best-in-class 2018 SSD is an entirely different beast than a 2008 model. They are somewhere around 5-30x faster now with significantly better write endurance, wear leveling, and capacity (you can get up to 4TB in consumer models for reasonable prices). The market hasn't pushed for solid state drives replacing bulk hard drive storage, instead it's pushed for much, much faster drives (yielding 1-2 orders of magnitude improvement over just the last decade alone) along with small form factor portable storage (SD cards and USB drives). The technology is there for someone to manufacture slow SSDs with the same capacity as hard drives at around the same cost, but the market demand isn't.

rasz 8y ago
> 2008 ...They are somewhere around 5-30x faster now with significantly better write endurance, Thats because 2008 to SSDs was like 1982 to HDDs. If you look at 2011 both of your promises are false. SATA SSD in 2011 was as fast as SATA SSD in 2018, but with about 10x more endurance. The technology to produce crappy SSD is there, but it will "forget" its contents in couple of months when kept unplugged, or burn thru erase cycles in a year while sitting idle, just keeping content alive.
- InclinedPlane 8y ago
  > SATA SSD in 2011 was as fast as SATA SSD in 2018 That's a meaningless distinction, M.2 SSDs are incredibly popular and are nearly 10x faster than anything you could get in 2011 (for example, an OCZ Vertex 3 would max out at 550/500 MB/s sequential read/write speeds while a Samsung 960 EVO can do 3.2/1.8 GB/s).
  - rasz 8y ago
    and the real world difference when loading a game? or word document? non existent.