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It looks like hard disks are going to stay for a couple more years. SSs are fast, but storage costs are still dropping with magnetic disks.

by iwwr 16y ago

dasil003 16y ago
HDs are the new tapes. The value proposition for large sequential storage is still much better on HDDs. But anyone not using an SSD for their boot drive is wasting lots of time.
frou_dh 16y ago
My first SSD will be the forthcoming Intel ("Gen3") if the 300GB one is reasonably priced. My storage needs aren't increasing; a few hundred GB is and will continue to be plenty. Desktop users have it easier, because moving to SSD isn't an all or nothing choice like it is on laptops with only one drive bay (no, I don't fancy gutting my optical bay :))
ugh 16y ago
I think that depends on the growth of the data people want to store. I don’t think the storage needs of many homes grows faster than about 4GB per year (1000 photos or 80 music albums [0]), at least if nobody in that particular home is a video enthusiast or an avid PC gamer. A 160GB SSD or even a 120GB SSD would last such a home many years, probably much longer than the lifetime of the drive. I recently de-cluttered my parents’ PC and can say with authority that their storage needs didn’t grow by more than a gigabyte in the last year. I have the suspicion that many of those 1TB drives they build in cheap PCs these days are mostly empty. [0] Especially photos seem to me to be the one thing that really demands additional storage and that nearly everyone uses. Documents usually only take up a few hundred megabyte.
- iwwr 16y ago
  High definition video cameras are proliferating, as well as bandwidth (which creates a demand for digital downloads). I don't think 160GB would work for too long in this scenario.
  - ugh 16y ago
    If you record video or download video content. Not everyone does. Just because the iPhone can record 720p footage doesn’t mean everyone uses it. (My parents never downloaded a video and never recorded a video.)

It looks like hard disks are going to stay for a couple more years. SSs are fast, but storage costs are still dropping with magnetic disks.

by iwwr 16y ago

It looks like hard disks are going to stay for a couple more years. SSs are fast, but storage costs are still dropping with magnetic disks.

dasil003 16y ago

HDs are the new tapes. The value proposition for large sequential storage is still much better on HDDs. But anyone not using an SSD for their boot drive is wasting lots of time.

frou_dh 16y ago

My first SSD will be the forthcoming Intel ("Gen3") if the 300GB one is reasonably priced. My storage needs aren't increasing; a few hundred GB is and will continue to be plenty. Desktop users have it easier, because moving to SSD isn't an all or nothing choice like it is on laptops with only one drive bay (no, I don't fancy gutting my optical bay :))

ugh 16y ago

I think that depends on the growth of the data people want to store. I don’t think the storage needs of many homes grows faster than about 4GB per year (1000 photos or 80 music albums [0]), at least if nobody in that particular home is a video enthusiast or an avid PC gamer. A 160GB SSD or even a 120GB SSD would last such a home many years, probably much longer than the lifetime of the drive. I recently de-cluttered my parents’ PC and can say with authority that their storage needs didn’t grow by more than a gigabyte in the last year. I have the suspicion that many of those 1TB drives they build in cheap PCs these days are mostly empty. [0] Especially photos seem to me to be the one thing that really demands additional storage and that nearly everyone uses. Documents usually only take up a few hundred megabyte.

iwwr 16y ago
High definition video cameras are proliferating, as well as bandwidth (which creates a demand for digital downloads). I don't think 160GB would work for too long in this scenario.
- ugh 16y ago
  If you record video or download video content. Not everyone does. Just because the iPhone can record 720p footage doesn’t mean everyone uses it. (My parents never downloaded a video and never recorded a video.)