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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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TrendForce: 56% of PCs Sold Will Come With SSDs by 2018
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(Score: 2) by chewbacon on Tuesday August 30 2016, @05:33PM
Bought a hybrid for my laptop and noticed a great balance of performance vs price. So I dumped a little more cash for just a SSD for my desktop and... wow. My desktop is about 5 years old, but now performs better than when it was new. Saved myself a new build. If you're using Windows, don't waste your time trying to buy a smaller SSD and a big HDD to save maybe $60-80. It is difficult to determine your true needs for that and you'll save a lot of effort and wasted hours just buying the big SSD.