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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: 3, Interesting) by SrLnclt on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:28PM
I concur... I'm surprised this didn't pass the 50% market share for new sales a while back. I wouldn't buy or recommend a machine for anyone without a SSD (for home or at work), and have felt that way for the last 18 months or so. Someone was just asking me about a new home laptop (typical novice user on a budget... email, youtube, facebook). A SSD was one of just a couple items I recommended. It's one of the single best things you can do to a machine these days if you are used to a spinning drive. The only reason my desktop at home doesn't have one is it's 5-7 years old, and I've been trying to decide if I should get one to kick the can down the road, or just replace the whole machine in the next year.