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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 30 2016, @03:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the hear-the-silence dept.

CNET reports:

They've been a fixture of the computing industry for 60 years, but in 2018, hard drives will be pushed aside by storage systems using memory chips in PCs, an analyst firm predicts. [...] SSDs no longer are exotic. This year, 33 percent of PCs sold will come with SSDs, but that should grow to 56 percent in 2018, analyst firm TrendForce forecast Monday.

They predicted 44% adoption in 2017. SSD prices are expected to drop to $0.17/GB in 2017, a direct result of new generations of 3D/vertical NAND.

As for those 3D XPoint post-NAND devices coming from Intel and Micron, the initial capacities could be closer to 140 GB than the 16-32 GB I originally expected.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @04:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @04:13PM (#395320)

    Modern games have gotten so huge that you need an SSD unless you like staring at a loading screen for 5+ minutes. I've been on the tail end of adoption, but I'll need to get one if Star Citizen ever releases. Fallout 4's loading was just barely on the inside of don't mind.

    Will still keep the 3TB drive for the movie and TV collection. Interesting to see how far SSD prices have fallen, though.

  • (Score: 2) by julian on Tuesday August 30 2016, @05:18PM

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 30 2016, @05:18PM (#395351)

    The next time I touch my last remaining Windows machine will be to upgrade it for Battlefield 1, but that won't be until the game is at least a year old. EA takes that much time to work out the bugs, release the content they held back at release as extra "expansion packs" for $30 each, and finally bring the price to come down to something reasonable.

    That computer has a 120GB SSD and after Windows 10 Pro + Battlefield 1 and expansions there'll hardly be any space left. Games, and Windows, have gotten BIG.