[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]actually, unless current hdds get a major kick in the right direction, ssds could come down to about the same cost/gb ratio sooni mean within 5 years. and lets not talk about adding infinite platters, lets go with 2-4 being the norm still.i mean if 1tb costs 100$ and a 1tb ssd costs 130$ which one are you going to get? i dont care about your budget at that point, you are going ssd even if its for storage. actually, i just did the math, at current process, if ssds went to the 7nm process today, they would easily beat out hdds on cost per gb. the next major jump in hdd will hear assisted will be when? and im having a hard time thinking that will be cheap, or affordable when it comes out, unless they get their crap together and bring the price down to pre flood, they are really screwing themselves, because i will play at most a 50% premium on an ssd over a hdd at the same size just for the no moving parts portion of it, meaning that in meaning that in about 3 years for me ssd will be more viable an option for storage than hdd.[/citation]
HDDs have the technology to increase in size several times over right now, but SSDs, regardless of how cheaply they can be made, would not just drop in price like that. The companies would undoubtedly just milk the profits and continue dropping prices slowly. HDD companies don't need some sort of kick, they just need to choose if they want to utilize tech that allows for higher capacity and if SSDs get too close in price per capacity, then chances are HDD companies would start utilizing the improved tech to get higher capacity for about the same BOM. Beyond that, I didn't say anything whatsoever about infinite platters.
Until NAND flash is replaced, unless the HDD companies really screw up, SSDs shouldn't get anywhere near a mere 30-50% more expensive price premium. Moving to smaller processes constantly hurts reliability/endurance of the flash while also increasing latencies (although I suspect that the latter is caused by not improving designs well enough to optimize for die shrinks, but I digress), so simply shrinking the die size is not enough, especially when we start talking about something like NAND flash built on a 7nm process.