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I'm not sure what you mean by mainstream, but SSDs were still pretty niche in 2009 and traditional hard drives have remained to be pretty popular until recently

I'm not sure what you mean by mainstream, but SSDs were still pretty niche in 2009 and traditional hard drives have remained to be pretty popular until recently due to the lower cost.

coding123 6y ago
I bought my first 128gb SSD for like 300 I think in 2008.
debian3 6y ago
My first SSD was in 2008, was 64gb SLC for $1000. Still going strong. But yeah, was pretty niche.