When will Hard Disk Drives transition completely to Solid State Drives?

[Landon]

I find modern technology very fascinating. I built my custom-made build a few years ago, and my hard drive was a 1TB HDD.
It ran quite loudly with my lack of rubber for the casing, which is beside the point and crosses into a different realm of topic.

Regardless, my HDD performed and it was reasonably fast at the time. I had heard from friends that SSDs were the way to go, and of course being the cheap-skate that I am, I went for a cheap Kingston thinking it would be terrible. Well, I was wrong. I will never go back to HDDs as a primary drive - they're so incredibly slow compared to an SSD. The startup time is so much better, and you can get straight to work after you login and start applications, while on HDDs, you had to wait for a good 30 seconds or more to get the computer up to speed. That being said, my old primary drive, the HDD, is now a storage drive with a capacity of 1TB which was a lot cheaper to buy than the 225GB SSD I have.

The question is this: When do you think HDDs will move completely out of desktop towers, be cleared off the shelves like floppy disks, and be written in history

[scottish]

Not any time soon as the price point is still far off, especially when it comes to enterprise drives.

Also capacity still has a bit to go

[FlyingJesus]

Short answer: when it's financially prudent for everyone

Although the prices have come down a lot they're still much more than HDDs, which are still perfectly functional in most cases. Gonna be a little while before HDD becomes totally defunct

[Catchy]

Not anytime soon I'd imagine. Plus the option of having both SSD and HDD is a plus imo

[Landon]

Not anytime soon I'd imagine. Plus the option of having both SSD and HDD is a plus imo

Perhaps another factor would be to produce the SSDs in a much more reliable manner and ensure that they won't fail before be become dependent on them.
Not that they aren't reliable already - they just have a bit of a reputation for failure.

[AgnesIO]

Perhaps another factor would be to produce the SSDs in a much more reliable manner and ensure that they won't fail before be become dependent on them.
Not that they aren't reliable already - they just have a bit of a reputation for failure.

It's generally accepted SSDs are more reliable than HDDs....

[Landon]

It's generally accepted SSDs are more reliable than HDDs....

Under what studies and conclusion?
SSDs are a lot more likely to loose data than HDDs.

[RelliexHD]

I'd still rather have a 2tb hard drive that does 100 read and write. Me as a performance type of guy, yes I can see where your coming from, but not all people need this. Unless they are a Hard Core Sweaty Gamer

[Keenan]

I've slowly been transitioning out of HDD (except for my external drives) but I still think they'll have a purpose for time to come.

[Landon]

I'd still rather have a 2tb hard drive that does 100 read and write. Me as a performance type of guy, yes I can see where your coming from, but not all people need this. Unless they are a Hard Core Sweaty Gamer

Nah, I definitely wouldn't want to solely use my SSD. I have my HDD as a storage drive and also a backup area in case anything goes south with the SSD.