HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
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Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#2As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE!
I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD.
A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65 these days, and is perfectly adequate for 99% of users. For that other 1% (which I include myself in) 512GB is adequate for 90% of those.
HDD -> SSD is the single most cost-effective upgrade most people can do to breathe new life into an older computer. Going from a spindle drive to a SSD in most computers decreases boot time from ~4 minutes to ~30 seconds. Browsers load faster, videos don't stutter as much, the computer runs more silently. These are the issues most people care about.
A SSD upgrade means a 2010 MacBook Pro now has another 2-3 years of life, which is awesome news to most of the people we serve (who are often college students just trying to make it through college without their computer dying on them.)
I hope to see this chart go to 0 in the next few years as SSDs continue to decrease in price; this doesn't mean much bad news for the "PC industry", just ancient relics of a bygone age finally dying (and/or becoming super-niche for things like archiving where data transfer rates don't particularly matter.)
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#3As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE! I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD. A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65 these days, and is perfectly adequate for 99% of users. For that other 1% (which I include myself in) 512GB is adequate for 90% of those. HDD -> SSD is the single most cost-effective up…
i have a 2009 mac pro.
first upgrade: more ram
second upgrade: ssd
third upgrade: video card and monitor.
it's on track to give me 10 years of use now, if not more (i'll probably succumb to upgrade fever before then). knocking on wood. the ram and ssd were a given, but i was surprised at how much more 2d performance the video card delivered. i really just wanted 4k for the real estate, but the actual speed at which it renders everything jumped dramatically.
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#4I'd love to see a graph with the same scale, charting the state of SSD sales.
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#5As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE! I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD. A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65 these days, and is perfectly adequate for 99% of users. For that other 1% (which I include myself in) 512GB is adequate for 90% of those. HDD -> SSD is the single most cost-effective up…
i have a 2009 mac pro. first upgrade: more ram second upgrade: ssd third upgrade: video card and monitor. it's on track to give me 10 years of use now, if not more (i'll probably succumb to upgrade fever before then). knocking on wood . the ram and ssd were a given, but i was surprised at how much more 2d performance the video card delivered. i really just wanted 4k for the real estate, but the actual speed at which…
2009 Mac Pro 2.66 quad here.
just did a 3.46 hex cpu upgrade. 32GB 1333 RAM sm951 AHCI pcie m2 boot drive (700MB/700MB) nvidia 1080 when it comes out.
bootcamp for games. 40" 4K Philips in os x for everything else.
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#6As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE! I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD. A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65 these days, and is perfectly adequate for 99% of users. For that other 1% (which I include myself in) 512GB is adequate for 90% of those. HDD -> SSD is the single most cost-effective up…
We won't be seeing these charts go to 0 in a few short years. Hard drives are at 2.7¢/GB while SSDs are at 21.9¢/GB, and that gap won't be closed with just one or two generations of NAND even if hard drives don't get any cheaper. We will increasingly see parts of the hard drive market killed off by SSDs, as the market for low-capacity 2.5" drives has been. Hard drives are shifting from being mainstream storage to archive storage, with things like shingled magnetic recording making hard drives inherently more tape-like. That's why Western Digital had to make a big SSD acquisition (SanDisk), and why Seagate needs to grow their SSD offerings by a lot.
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#7As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE! I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD. A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65 these days, and is perfectly adequate for 99% of users. For that other 1% (which I include myself in) 512GB is adequate for 90% of those. HDD -> SSD is the single most cost-effective up…
i have a 2009 mac pro. first upgrade: more ram second upgrade: ssd third upgrade: video card and monitor. it's on track to give me 10 years of use now, if not more (i'll probably succumb to upgrade fever before then). knocking on wood . the ram and ssd were a given, but i was surprised at how much more 2d performance the video card delivered. i really just wanted 4k for the real estate, but the actual speed at which…
2006 core 2 duo 6600 dell running just fine here. It's exactly 10 years old. running windows 7. Using HDD and graphic cards so weak it has no fan.
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#8AWS, GCP and Azure must be making hay getting cheap drives from manufacturers who want to grow revenue / move units.
Regular S3 hasn't had a price cut in a while now.
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#9As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE! I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD. A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65 these days, and is perfectly adequate for 99% of users. For that other 1% (which I include myself in) 512GB is adequate for 90% of those. HDD -> SSD is the single most cost-effective up…
is SSD reliable? With no moving parts, it ssd should be more reliable, but that's not apparently the case. What's your experience?
Also, have you seen case of SSD data loss due as result of not powering up for couple years?
Re: HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
i have a 2009 mac pro. first upgrade: more ram second upgrade: ssd third upgrade: video card and monitor. it's on track to give me 10 years of use now, if not more (i'll probably succumb to upgrade fever before then). knocking on wood . the ram and ssd were a given, but i was surprised at how much more 2d performance the video card delivered. i really just wanted 4k for the real estate, but the actual speed at which…
2009 Mac Pro 2.66 quad here. just did a 3.46 hex cpu upgrade. 32GB 1333 RAM sm951 AHCI pcie m2 boot drive (700MB/700MB) nvidia 1080 when it comes out. bootcamp for games. 40" 4K Philips in os x for everything else.
So what is "Mac Pro" in this now? The case and the power supply?