Reply to post: Re: "Just" a 2.2x price premium by 2021?

Horsemen of the disk-drive apocalypse will ride upon 256TB SSDs

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Re: "Just" a 2.2x price premium by 2021?

Fine, so then you still buy a hard drive for capacity and a smaller SSD for boot and commonly used files.

However, I think once the price premium gets much below 2x that the market for hard drives will begin to shrink so fast that production lines will be halted and the only drives you'll be able to buy will be ones remaining in the channel. It isn't going to be a very smooth transition, so if you need hard drives you'll need to plan carefully once you start reading about production lines being shut down.

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