[toomuchtodo]

It appears so.

"By packing 32 or 64 times the capacity per die, 3D NAND will allow SSDs to increase capacity well beyond hard drive sizes. SanDisk, for example, plans 8 TB drives this year, and 16 TB drives in 2016. At the same time, vendors across the flash industry are able to back off two process node levels and obtain excellent die yields."

Goodnight spinning disk; you've served us well.

[StillBored]

I have no doubt that we will see devices that big. The question is will anyone buy them. So its really a question of cost. HD's will be dead next year if I can buy a 10TB SSD for $300.. If it costs $4000, i'm sure HD's will last another couple years.

[Keyframe]

And we just got 10TB spinning disks on the market! Can't wait for the price to fall down for big SSD storage!

[x0x0]

/me does the happy dance

an ssd is the best hardware upgrade I've had in the last 5 years

Once you get used to it, try using a computer with spinning rust and it will just feel glacial

who doesn't need multi-tb ssds in their laptop?

[codemac]

I wouldn't count them out, just as much as disk drives were supposed to replace tape for how long now?

I bet disks will get even more dense (think 20+ TiB), have better reliability when powered off, and be sold in pallets to large companies mostly.

For the consumer market, disk drives are already pretty much dead.

[toomuchtodo]

It all really depends on the SSD curve. If SSDs continue their price decline and capacity increases as this article mentions, it'd be difficult for HDDs to compete. Tape costs you no power in storage, but HDDs do unless you're powering them down and spinning them back up (which causes significant wear on the motor). SSDs get you cheap storage and lower power consumption, negating both tape and HDDs simultaneously.

TL;DR SSD advancement set to deprecate HDDs and tape in near future.

[codemac]

> (which causes significant wear on the motor)

[citation needed]

Copan and many other companies did really well powering down drives.

[Retra]

They already seem so clunky and primitive!

[notNow]

Time to join the ranks of his FDD and CD-ROM buddies