SSD Flash The Next Big Thing? I Think Not

Flash memory in the shape of SSD hard disks is a comparatively new development, and SSD hard drives are now available in impressive capacities such as 80Gb and 120GB. This capacity of storage would have been enough for anyone 10 years ago, but now that movies are in high definition and music is in 192kpbs high quality and the photographs we take are several megabytes each, our need for massive amounts of storage is also much greater than it used to be.

A report in today's UK edition of The Register compares SSD takeup and popularity with HDDs and finds that SSD are falling by the wayside month by month. The reason? They can't keep up with the capacities now being squeezed from HDDs (Hitachi currently sell a 6TB hard drive) and the cost per megabyte of SSD storage is significantly higher that for HDDs.

All this is good news for you and me - HDD's are cheaper to buy the SSD's and also considerable easier for computer support companies to maintain.

You can read the full article in The Register here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/09/no_flash_datacentre_takeover/