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Originally Posted by TheWretched
So you don't think there will be any replacement for a hard drive any time soon? What do you think the limit to storage capacity is on a hard drive?
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Again, no, not for many years.
Maybe in ten years things will be different, but I don't expect major changes in the next three or four. The price-to-byte ratio is still just
way too high and the lifetime too short for widespread replacement with flash.
I expect hard drive capacity will reach well into the terabyte range before tapering off altogether. Current terabyte "drives" are actually just multiple smaller drives RAIDed together. However, there are always developments to push the limits higher. Hitachi, for example, is currently working with storing bits perpendicular to the surface to allow for ten times as much storage on the same surface area.