SSD will get cheaper, but SSDs are special purpose/enthusiast devices. SSDs have a lot of drawbacks for the average user. Many of those who try them soon become disenchanted by said drawbacks, so your prediction that SDDs will become dominant in the market could well be another foolish prediction.
I think it is too soon to say that the replacement technologies for SSDs and HDDs would not contain any moving parts.
+ Reply to Thread
Results 31 to 42 of 42
-
Last edited by usually_quiet; 11th May 2014 at 11:32. Reason: Corrected typo
-
Last edited by pippas; 7th Oct 2014 at 19:20.
-
Last edited by pippas; 7th Oct 2014 at 19:21.
-
[QUOTE=pippas;2320928] Yes I meant SSDs, and will correct that. ...but with all the double-talking, evasion, subject changing, and utterly inaccurate statements you have made in the course of this thread, I think I am safe in saying that nobody who reads your remarks is going mistake you for a logician or someone with any expertise in the technologies being discussed.
Last edited by usually_quiet; 11th May 2014 at 11:35.
-
Ah good.. just wanted to be sure. As you continue to prefer to concentrate most of the content of your posts on personal abuse, I do have some difficulty in identifying which bits you are intending to put forward as serious technical comments, and which are just intended to be abusive?
-
-
Last edited by pippas; 11th May 2014 at 12:07.
-
-
Yes, it is a question.... I couldn't find any technical comment in that post, but maybe it was something that I'd missed? I was asking the question.
Sorry you feel that this is a 'point scoring' exercise...... and I'm not at all sure what the 'troll' comment is for? (Yes, that's a question too!).
But thanks again for not swearing.... -
Clarify. What is 100 years old still in niche use in relation to this topic? (Paper?)
But, as a mainstream format I would guess the time is probably shorter than many folk expect. Certainly shorter than Sony expected, or they wouldn't have invested so much cash in Blu-ray.....
Trivia: I encode Blu-ray spec MPEG-2 to HDD, for my personal projects. It's viewable "raw" video data, easily authored to BD, and easily transcoded to DVD. I wish this had existed a decade ago. We just didn't have what was needed back then.
As for the change from HDD to SDD?.... Again, inevitable .. no one will want to manufacture mechanical devices to read spinning discs for any longer than they have to. Time scale?... that of course is the $64,000 question... but it will happen.
Thus far, SSD is a failure. Yes, it's faster, yes it uses less power (not like anybody honestly cares about that part). But with speed comes sacrifice of the data. HDD crashes are really rare these days, but I cannot say the same for SSD -- even for ones that are new! And when SSD is lost, it's 100% loss. With HDD, at least there's a chance of recovering it. (I had to use Kroll in 2009, to the price tag of $1300, but it was 99%+ recovery.) The main users of SSD do so in tandem with "spinning disks" in a daily backup (Idera, mostly).
Note: Stop writing SDD. SSD, two S one D = solid-state drive/device/disk. It's hard to take people seriously when they can't even get the terminology/jargon correct.
Right now, one of the best drives are the enterprise drives with SSD caching. That may be where SSD has to be relegated long-term, until another tech with better stability is figured out. I wanted SSD too, but it's too unreliable.Want my help? Ask here! (not via PM!)
FAQs: Best Blank Discs • Best TBCs • Best VCRs for capture • Restore VHS -
It depends on your definition of 'niche' of course, but if you include restoration as a niche market (as I can imagine you might
) then this could well quaify:
http://newsdesk.si.edu/factsheets/early-sound-recording-collection-and-sound-recovery-project
An extreme example perhaps, but it does illustrate just how long spinning discs have been in use..... and how they're unlikely to disappear completely, anytime soon.
But as a mainstream - or primary - format I'm merely suggesting their time may be less than originally envisaged.
My apologies -- silly typo(s) on my part!.