SSDs may replace HDDs to become mainstream storage

Somewhat of an old story but I can see this happening in the near future.  (or next 3-5 years according to Digitimes) 

The large earthquake in northeastern Japan in March 2011 and flooding in Thailand in October 2011 resulted in short supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) and therefore pushed up prices for a while, according to Digitimes Research. In contrast, the average price of solid-state drives slipped 50% in the first half of 2012, making SSDs more competitive in price against HDDs. While average storage costs for HDDs stayed at US$0.09/GB, SSDs dropped to US$0.80/GB.

As they indicated the switch will depend largely on price and assuming we have more natural disasters that cause delays in manufacturing the offset in price may sway in favor of flash media over the traditional platter styles.

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