It is cheaper, but probably not by as much as you might think since many people are transitioning to SSDs which set us back several years in terms of price and

It is cheaper, but probably not by as much as you might think since many people are transitioning to SSDs which set us back several years in terms of price and capacity. My case is extremely non-typical, but my current primary computer has 30 GB of storage, which coincidentally is what my primary computer had about one decade ago (of course this is much faster, in a laptop, and I have I have a very large amount networked storage available to me...)