[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]that number is complete bs.the reason solid state is falling fast is because there is a market for it, be it mobile devices or desktops. harddrives had to innovate, and get better over the years, solid state was more or less invented into processes that were already on track...unless they come up with a way to fit more data per square mm besides nm shrinks, there is a base cost of about 50000$ a wafer, and about 21 tb a wafer, granted i REALLY want the size of a ssd chip (waffer, not the black shell) and how much space it stores so i can tell better how much ssds really cost, but there is a base cost that will not go down, and the only way to get it down... well... intel made a 450 wafer plant correct? if a 450 costs the same as a 300 to make, than thats one way to trim costs, the other is nm shrink, which even if we get to the 5nm range, they are JUST able to start competing with the prices pre flood, assuming the tech takes off, we may have 60tb drives around the same time for 2-300$, which is far cheaper than they can offer. i got off on a tangent there, but point stands, ssds will never be cheaper than a hdd, and we will forever need more space... just watch what happens if xbox gets a bluray drive, you will see many games take up 25-50gb for no reason other than no compression.[/citation]
Flash can't scale down to 5nm because it's insulators can't fit in that small of a process node. Basically it can't handle leakage at that node and would not work. It would need to be replaced by SONOS/SHINOS to get insulators that can get thinner than Flash's insulators and still work. Even then, I don't know if they can get that small for 5nm.
[citation][nom]naomiquexi[/nom]harddrives had to innovate, and get better over the years, solid state was more or less invented into processes that were already on track...[/citation]
At least we know ways to keep on with the increasing of hard drive data density and thus capacity and performance. With Flash, we know it's limited and needs replacement because there's little that we can do about it besides replacement with another technology, even if it's one that is very similar such as SONOS and SHINOS (they're basically Flash, except made from different materials, if I remember correctly).