[phire]

All the high end and mid-range laptops have already dropped the spinning drive (unless they have a secondary drive for bulk storage), the user experience is just so much better. It's only the low-end laptops that still use spinning drives, because even a 1tb is technically cheaper than a reasonably sized SSD.

I took a look and the NAND chip trend lines, and I predict that by mid 2018, 256gb of NAND (which is enough space for an average consumer) will cost less than a 1tb drive. At that point, all the cheap laptops will drop spinning drives too.

[mcintyre1994]

Actually the very low end is all 32gb emmc now, I assume those are super cheap and Windows 10 is okayish with that space so the manufacturers went for it.

But then you jump to mechanical disks to get above 32 until like you said mid-range where it's all proper SSDs.

[Numberwang]

I bought one of those for Christmas that only had 16gb. 14 of those were taken up by win10! Win10 ran reasonably well actually, but I switched to lubuntu for the storage.

[derekp7]

This sounds like we could go back to the workflow of pre hard drive systems. Windows on the internal drive, and all user file storage on SD cards.