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Ambitious? I'll say.

"What does Tosh want out of HDD, you ask? Twenty per cent HDD market share by the year 2015 is the answer. Ambitious, considering SSD are on the rise."

I've heard that hard drive space doubles about every year and SSDs about every 9 months, so price should(maybe) follow along. So, assuming the world operated in a totally logical fashion, SSD space will cost 5 times as much as hard drive space, whereas now it's 20 times.

So hard drives still look good, until you realize that you'll be paying a few hundred dollars for a multi-terabyte drive when it comes to flash drives. And you're also needing to access that information on that hard drive, which will kind of suck.

So, unless something majorly horrible happens in the SSD industry, flash drives will become VERY popular in the next half-decade or so.

(I know this is obvious stuff, but I figured someone should be first to spell it out)

posted by : Jason Goatcher, 18 February 2009 Complain about this comment

Fujitsu flogs its HDD business

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