mklein9

Hard Disk Drives Losing Battle to Flash Memory

Storage needs are increasing insatiably. Sure iPods and phones, etc., use flash drives, but the source of their data are on hard drives, either on servers across the internet, or on your own desktop at home where you keep your 500 GB of music, soon to be 5 TB of videos and so on. That is where growth will continue unabated for hard drives. Cloud computing, on-demand video, faster broadband.. these and other technologies simply *increase* the need for very large data storage. Hard drives and flash memory overlap only in small markets; I'm not sure why you focus on that small overlap and decide hard drives are on their way out. Whatever technology gives the cheapest cost per byte of storage will be on one end of the data connection; small and low-power on the other. For any foreseeable future, hard drives are the former and flash the latter.