Rotating hard drives will continue to increase in storage and decrease in price for a long time, so they will probably still make sense for 'mass' storage of things like audio, video, and pictures. Now in a couple of years, as early adopters buy these things at insanely high prices and hopefully encourage manufacturers to ramp up mass production, we'll see the price per GB drop off to something probably closer to double that of spinning hard drives, and at that point, you would be stupid not to buy one as your main boot/scratch drive. It will also pull 1/10th the battery power to do the same amount of work, and generate almost 0 watts of heat.īut for 1000 dollars, i don't think it is really a smart buy yet. Especially people used to laptop hard drive speeds. For most people, the difference will be really impressive. At least if they use a good SSD, it will.Ĭheck out TomsHardware or Anandtech's coverage of SSD drives and see how they compare.

In many tasks, it will be quicker than the 10,000 RPM Raptor hard drives.

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