Why Steve Jobs’ Computer Paradigm Shift Prediction Panned Out, and What it Means for the Market

The Wiglaf Journal ^ | March 6, 2014 | David Dalka, New Media Editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

Traditional hard drive manufacturers are currently going through a paradigm shift

[cynwoody]

Can I replace the old disc HD in my MacBook with an SSD? That is, are they interchangeable, now?

I was actually thinking more in terms of shopping for a new machine.

However, SSDs are designed to be dropped in as replacements for existing rotating drives. See this link, for example, on upgrading the MBP.

[cynwoody]

Flash has the big problem of limited write cycles and data evaporation.

That's true, and mitigating the write endurance problem is the source of a lot of the complexity in SSD controllers. However, they've succeeded in raising the limit quite high, such that you will likely junk the computer long before it hits the write limit. E.g., according to this endurance testing link, the Intel 335 series is rated at 20 GB of writes per day for three years, and the Kingston HyperX 3K is supposed to withstand 192 TB of writes (that works out to 180 GB per day for three years). Most users will be doing a lot more reading than writing.

[dennisw]

I mainly buy SSDs from Newegg. They are constantly running specials on them these days.

I get the NewEgg specials emailed to me so I see the lower prices. Do have any brand you consider more reliable, that will not die? Or a brand you like the best like Crucial or Samsung?

Today's NewEgg special is 120GB from PNY>>>>
PNY XLR8 SSD9SC120GMDF-RB 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)for $65

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

And I’ll bet you money that you won’t be able to get a steady wifi signal just 50 miles from the data center. Just because they run a high bandwidth route to that one data center doesn’t mean you have universal high-speed access...

[PhiloBedo]

Thank you.

[Malsua]

Do have any brand you consider more reliable,

The first half dozen or so I purchased were Intel. 80gb-120gb.

I bought one OCZ Vertex and the rest have been Samsung EVO or PROs.

I have not had any fail at all, in any fashion yet.

[Monty22002]

SSDs have 500 megabit speed as of now. I don’t see that kind of speed being all that common for home connections in the next 20 years. Putting all your apps on the cloud would be slower than a traditional HD. That’s the main killer.

[moehoward]

"….but it will never supplant local access entirely and this is where the SSD will be king."

Agreed. No matter how much they push for Cloud. Apples "free" Maverricks pretty much forces you over that way so it's being panned by most folks who want to control their own data, music and movies particularly. The end game for the Cloud proponents is to force a 'use' license that would have to be renewed. And it's already happening.

[moehoward]

Ditto. The GOOD stuff I’ve purchased on ebay back when the getting was good. I can’t say much of the newer music matters enough to have on CD, iTunes downloads for that will do.

[dennisw]

Thanks a lot for those recommendations!!

[FreedomPoster]

>>one of the iron laws of technology is that stupid ideas never die, they just come back with a trendier name.
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I was at a “cloud computing” event a few years ago and one of the speakers started his talk by saying “I got started as an Application Service Provider about a decade ago, then I did Software as a Service, and now I do Cloud Computing.”

The room, most of which had been around the block a time or two, laughed heartily.