vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoSSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the marketwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down19cross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
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minus-squareblind3rdeyelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agonar. HDDs don’t require power to maintain their state. So that’s an advantage they’ll always have over SSDs, which means there will be use-cases where HDDs are the better choice.
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 hours agoSSDs can reliably hold charge states for years, and there are storage media that are more reliable than HDD. HDD’s would still find a niche, probably, as a balanced option, but said niche will likely get smaller and smaller over many years.
nar. HDDs don’t require power to maintain their state. So that’s an advantage they’ll always have over SSDs, which means there will be use-cases where HDDs are the better choice.
SSDs can reliably hold charge states for years, and there are storage media that are more reliable than HDD.
HDD’s would still find a niche, probably, as a balanced option, but said niche will likely get smaller and smaller over many years.