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SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not yet, unless the higher capacity comes at a much lower price. HDDs are fine for the price currently

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it'll be interesting to see what happens, but i've been hoping that at some point SSDs will simply hit a cost point that is lower, whereas HDDs won't be able to go below that (due to physical tolerancing and complicated manufacturing) whereas with an SSD it's literally just chips on a board. You put more of them on the board it has more storage, simple as that.

Although i think before that, HDDs would likely become extremely competitive since they would actually be forced to lower cost some substantial amount.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Although i think before that, HDDs would likely become extremely competitive since they would actually be forced to lower cost some substantial amount.

I think you have it backwards. The SSD manufacturers are always going to see their product as better than HDD performance wise so they'll likely always have a higher price per capacity.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

that's possible, but idk. I don't really see why i would want an 8TB ssd that can run at 4GB/s unless im literally a data center, so i think at some point the higher capacity ones are just going to have to be cheaper and more affordable. I.E. probably slower.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yup, I use HDDs for my NAS and SSDs for my desktop and laptop. HDD for cheap storage, SSD for fast storage.