Eventually, SSD’s will supplant the traditional HDD in virtually all applications.............
Eventually, SSD’s will supplant the traditional HDD in virtually all applications.............
That seems likely, eventually - but it took a while for silicon RAM to replace the magnetic core memory, and flash memory is not the first challenger to the magnetic disk. Non-magnetic RAM did eventually prevail. But the rotating magnetic disk has not been a stationary target but a very dynamic one - such that I long ago dismissed the idea of being careful in my use of disk space. When you get to where you are tight on disk space the logical response is not to try to "clean out the closet" but to pay another $200 or so for a new, larger-capacity hard drive.That logic might eventually prevail even with SSDs - but even if you spring for an SSD now for your application (as I noted might be the correct decision for an application for which I bought a computer a couple of years ago), present-day prices would prevent me from considering that option of indiscriminately buying more than the minimum capacity needed for that application - at least, not until prices have dropped in half two or three times. So in general I don't see the hard disk disappearing for at least a decade.
Now that I remind myself how old that computer is, or soon will be, it wouldn't necessarily be out of the question to consider a CPU upgrade as well as a memory upgrade.