[tscs37]

I think until SSDs can hit the price point of a HDD at same capacity they will probably stay around atleast in consumer space.

A 2TB harddrive is just way to cheap compared to a 2TB SSD, even if they fail and need more power, atleast for archiving or large storage in consumer terms.

Primary storage may switch to SSD though.

[marcofloriano]

I'm with you, but i believe we will see more and more huge user data sets being stored on clouds. So maybe the future will be a hybrid model between SSD local drives (for day to day files) and cloud for mass user storage (like photos, videos, backups, and so on).

[brokenmachine]

People keep suggesting that the cloud will take over, but for most people the time required to upload all their 4k christmas videos to the cloud will be the limiting factor.

If everyone had fiber, sure...