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It's also interesting to look at the trend over time for what capacity the price crossover point is at. Right now, it's around 1TB, but it's been moving steadil
by wtallis 4y ago
It's also interesting to look at the trend over time for what capacity the price crossover point is at. Right now, it's around 1TB, but it's been moving steadily upward ever since small SSDs first started to reach "cheap" prices. Hard drive spindle motors, actuators, and clean-room assembly aren't getting cheaper, but every time flash gets denser the capacity of a cheap SSD consisting of a controller and two or four NAND dies gets bigger.
When you analyze that trend in light of how many consumer use cases show little or no growth in capacity requirements over time (due to factors like cloud storage and video streaming), it's hard to see any long-term future for hard drives in consumer PCs.
- Gigachad 4y agoFor the average consumer, 1TB is more than enough storage. All of my photos, videos, and important documents added up comes out to 50GB. Everything else is just programs and games which can easily be deleted and redownloaded.
- TylerE 4y agoEven on gigabit, many AAA games are over 100GB these days. That's big enough to get annoying. My personal system has 4.5TB of SSD and 8TB of HDD (Used for backups, etc), and that sometimes doesn't always feel like enough - and I'm not even doing video editing or anything.
- Gigachad 4y agoNo one is playing triple A games on a HDD anymore though. I did the math and found it was about the same speed to redownload from steam as it was to copy a game off the HDD.
- maccard 4y agoI wish you were right. Based on the profiling data I've seen, plenty of people are... They shouldn't be, but they are.
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- imtringued 4y agoThat just means you get a 4TB SSD instead of a 2TB SSD. Hardly a reason to be concerned.