Hard drives on the way out?
It’s the time of year for predictions and here’s an interesting one- hard drives are going to be replaced by solid state drives (SSD). That’s what a post at Computerworld says. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes:
Sound impossible? Actually it’s all too possible. SSD (Solid State Drives) have gone from being small and pricey to being roomy and affordable. At the year’s beginning, you could only find 4 and 8GB SSDs on inexpensive, Linux-powered netbooks or a 64GB SSD on the expensive Rolls-Royce of laptops, the Macbook Air.
As 2008 comes to a close though. It’s a different story. The drives are getting bigger and cheaper. 128GB drives are now common, 256GBs are on their way, and Toshiba will soon be selling 512GB drives.
He predicts:
Put it all together and I can see SSDs putting hard drives out to pasture by 2009’s end on desktops and laptops. After that it may not be long before they start replacing hard drives on servers. “Impossible!” You say? Think again. It seems Google is already putting SSDs into service.
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