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No Cheap Replacement For Hard Disks Before 2020

Posted by timothy on from the we'll-see-in-10-years-about-that dept.

siddesu writes with disappointing news to anyone who'd like to see solid-state storage dominate in the near-term future. "A new study of storage technology by the former CTO of Seagate predicts that hard disks will remain the cheapest storage technology in the next decade and probably beyond."

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  1. Do they have a crystal ball? by 2.7182 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously why waste time and energy thinking about this? It can't be predicted. Imagine in 1947: "There is no forseable way to improve computing speed for 20 years."

  2. Where are you getting these numbers? by westlake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It isn't, though, unless you really expect to use all of that 1 TB capacity. The average computer user uses maybe 1-200 gigs.

    The pocket camcorder that sells for less than $200 generates 8 GB of 720p video in less than two hours.

    Is it really that difficult to fill a 1 TB hard drive?