Seagate Technology leads a thriving hard-disk drive (HDD) industry, driven by demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage devices, according to analyst iSuppli. Unlike the Nand flash chip industry, HDD vendors resisted the worst of the economic slowdown by learning to control their costs, argued Krishna Chander, senior analyst for storage systems at iSuppli.The industry also got lucky with rising demand for more storage in PCs because new applications call for more HDD capacity. The threat of solid-state disk has not materialised yet, as HDD offers a cheap practical answer to today’s challenges, i-Suppli added. “Provided demand for low-cost storage capacity keeps rising, the HDD industry will find ways to deliver,” said Chander. In the first quarter of 2008, HDD vendors shipped 137 million units, up 21 per cent year on year.
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Yeah, right. Nothing to do with the wealth of freely downloadable HD content and music.
You can easily get by with 160GB for your OS and apps.
Yeah, right. Nothing to do with the wealth of freely downloadable HD content and music.
You can easily get by with 160GB for your OS and apps.
probably for people that run 32478928 games on their computers, I was suprised when my 40gb OS partition ran out after installing a few games...
but i do think what DARKFiB3R said pretty much sums it up and compliments what i just said.
cause basically if it where not for the mass amounts of movies etc etc that are 'out there' , 'most people' would not even need more than say 250GB tops.
im sure some people would that have alot of home videos that they transfer into there pc and a few other exceptions but generally speaking it's a pretty safe bet that what i was saying just about sums it up.
cause me personally, i have 850GB total (3 hard drives total) and i would not need anywhere near that amount if it where not for my XviD collection that i have... if i got rid of that i would guess that 250GB would be good enough considering i have a decent amount of games which can burn up space pretty quick depending on how many you have.
it is good to have big hard drive at very good price.
and then here come my os hd . raptorx which i use about 50% ~75hd
where is the 1.5 TB they kept talking about while back !
I fear that is slightly like complaining that an MRI company says that their MRI machines are cheap at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Yes, they are cheap - for what they are.
I fear that is slightly like complaining that an MRI company says that their MRI machines are cheap at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Yes, they are cheap - for what they are.
More like a disconnect from reality. SSD vendors are pitching them as replacement for hard disks. Maybe these people should find out what the average person earns and the price of a traditional hard disk.
It needs to be better and cheaper; SSD current is neither of them.
Last edited by kaiwai on 01 Aug 2008 - 07:04
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