At 9:36 AM -0700 10/26/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
In the end multi-terabyte SSD's are going to be very cheap, and hard drives a relic of the past, and I suspect it;'s going to accelerate greatly in the face of increased hard drive costs.
In the end, we'll stop trying to make tape drives emulate card reader/punches, er a, make RAM emulate HDs.
For the next n years, however, NAND (flash) memory is NOT going to be cheap or reliable enough to really replace real HDs.
The ONLY reason to use a SSD is if there is some sort of overriding speed or power savings requirement.
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