• Allero@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    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.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 minutes ago

      It will probably be a choice of quieter, faster, expensive vs loud, high capacity, pretty cheap.

      Unless we start with 3.5" SSDs (pls), HDDs will always be storage kings.
      Imagine 3.5" SSDs with 3-4 layer sandwiched PCBs…And inexpensive NAND…

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      24 minutes ago

      HDDs will probably always be useful for media storage, where quick access time isn’t required and it isn’t being used constantly. They should die for PCs though.