

Pressure from SSDs and declining demand will affect the market





Source: iSuppli

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New meta
By Shadowmaster625 on 2/6/2013 10:59:40 AM , Rating: 1
5 years ago if you had 3-5 computers in your house they all had 320-500GB HDDs. 10 years ago if you had 3 computers, they all had 40-160GB HDDs. See the pattern? So today, does it mean you should have a bunch of 500GB-2TB HDDs? Nope. You have each machine with a 60-128GB SSD, and they all share a NAS. The paradigm has changed. And not in the favor of HDD manufacturers. Really it is their fault for not simply building a decent hybrid drive. There is no reason anyone should pay more than a $20 premium for a 8GB hybrid solution. But they are just being stupid about it. All it takes is 8GB of MLC NAND, 128MB of cache, and some well written firmware, and there would be no market for SSDs because the real world perfomance of HDDs would be excellent. But like I said they really dropped the ball.

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