What your computer's hard drive will look like in 5 years

[ronjor]

By Lucas Mearian

January 16, 2009 (Computerworld) As solid-state disk (SSD) technology closes in on hard-disk drive (HDD) capacity and price, experts say it may not be long before spinning disks are a thing of the past and a computer's storage resides in flash memory on the motherboard.

By making the drive part of a system's core architecture -- instead of a peripheral device -- data I/O performance could initially double, quadruple or more, according to Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist with market research firm In-Stat Inc.

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[Mrkvonic]

Nice! Very interesting ...
Mrk

[markymoo]

What your computer's hard drive will look like in 5 years?

Answer: a bag of nuts and bolts lol

[Eliot]

Originally Posted by markymoo

What your computer's hard drive will look like in 5 years?

Answer: a bag of nuts and bolts lol

ROFL, or a block of rust in some dump.

[RejZoR]

In theory, thee drives offer lots of everything but in reality, most of them are still rather slow, those that do achieve good results will naturally cost you a hart, liver, lung and one kidney. But it makes lots of sense for laptopbs and netbooks because they are shock proof.

[ambient_88]

I really do hope that SSDs will be cheaper and has more capacity 5 years from now. While hard drives are manufactured with precision electronics, I've been seeing the failure rates climb up, especially with the ones that have massive capacity (>=750GB). This is probably due to cramming more and more electronics/mechanical parts (i.e. platters, heads, etc) in a small enclosure (3.5 in).