Yes, hard disks offer more capacity than solid state drives, but I don't think that this continuing to be so will necessarily mean that people will always prefe

Yes, hard disks offer more capacity than solid state drives, but I don't think that this continuing to be so will necessarily mean that people will always prefer hard disks. Almost everything is now on the net, and hard disks are becoming more like a cache. I play games from Steam, stream music and videos and hardly ever keep local copies. It only takes about 15 minutes to download one full CD-ROM of content. Therefore I would currently prefer 80G of space on a solid-state drive if it was a lot faster, more quiet and reliable if it cost the same as a 1TB hard disk. For a laptop it would be a no-brainer if it also used the battery less. Right now we are not quite there yet, as 80G on a good SSD costs the same as a 4T traditional disk, but I think it won't be long until the sweet spot is reached. Of course there are people with legitimate needs for a lot of space, for example editing video. But for most casual users, SSDs will likely start making more sense quite soon. Oh yeah, I would like to also clarify about my previous comment which commented about Joel's SSD purchase. I wrote that maybe he can next get his employees SSDs based on RAM modules. Some people seemed to think that I was being disrespectful and making fun of Joel, but I hope from this comment you can see that I just really like the idea of SSDs.