Comments on: Are Hard Disk Drives Facing Extinction? http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/are-hard-disk-drives-facing-extinction/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: prashobhkarunakaran http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/are-hard-disk-drives-facing-extinction/#comment-128481 prashobhkarunakaran Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:39:54 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-128481 Samsung still makes hard disks. Hard disk is definitely the growing and future industry that will help the world. I believe one can see the future by looking inside a hard disk; a clean (and not oily and clunky) machine where electricity has a more important role than the mechanical parts. The only mechanical technology is the bearings and even this will disappear when they suspend the disk holding mechanism in a magnetic field like the electric trains. Hard disk technology has a long way to go, they are already shock resistant enough to be installed in a cell phones which can withstand a human jogging while talking on such a phone. Cars manufacturers are installing it in the latest cars to enable a whole range of things like GPS and movies downloadable from the convenience of your laptop in your home wirelessly to your car's hard disk. Samsung still makes hard disks. Hard disk is definitely the growing and future industry that will help the world. I believe one can see the future by looking inside a hard disk; a clean (and not oily and clunky) machine where electricity has a more important role than the mechanical parts. The only mechanical technology is the bearings and even this will disappear when they suspend the disk holding mechanism in a magnetic field like the electric trains. Hard disk technology has a long way to go, they are already shock resistant enough to be installed in a cell phones which can withstand a human jogging while talking on such a phone. Cars manufacturers are installing it in the latest cars to enable a whole range of things like GPS and movies downloadable from the convenience of your laptop in your home wirelessly to your car's hard disk.

]]> By: Jason Howard http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/are-hard-disk-drives-facing-extinction/#comment-53448 Jason Howard Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:07:27 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-53448 I agree Prashobh, but if solid state drives get to a point where they can store more than traditional hard drives, then it's a given. This isn't just "flash" memory cards. These are solid state drives that will be faster than SATA. I agree Prashobh, but if solid state drives get to a point where they can store more than traditional hard drives, then it's a given. This isn't just “flash” memory cards. These are solid state drives that will be faster than SATA.

]]> By: Prashobh Karunakaran http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/are-hard-disk-drives-facing-extinction/#comment-53447 Prashobh Karunakaran Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:02:11 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-53447 There is no way solid state devices will replace hard disks. No doubt flash memory storage capacity is increasing and prices are going down, but the rate at which the solid state industry in doing this is far less than hard disk industry. We are moving to the graphic world of pictures that tells a thousand words. Pictures and movies are going to be a prime means of communication. Movies are already moving to hard disks as in PVRs. Band widths of communications are increasing at a very high rate with fiber optics to accomodate the movement of graphics. We have put up with the "old fashion" written communication all this time because we did not have an alternative but humans have naturally communicated with pictures and visions since ancient times. Flash memories just cannot handle all these. There is no way solid state devices will replace hard disks. No doubt flash memory storage capacity is increasing and prices are going down, but the rate at which the solid state industry in doing this is far less than hard disk industry. We are moving to the graphic world of pictures that tells a thousand words. Pictures and movies are going to be a prime means of communication. Movies are already moving to hard disks as in PVRs. Band widths of communications are increasing at a very high rate with fiber optics to accomodate the movement of graphics. We have put up with the “old fashion” written communication all this time because we did not have an alternative but humans have naturally communicated with pictures and visions since ancient times. Flash memories just cannot handle all these.

]]> By: RX8 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/are-hard-disk-drives-facing-extinction/#comment-53446 RX8 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:53:24 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-53446 I think you will see SSD's in cell phones and media players well before they hit the laptop scene. Either way this is great news for us. I think you will see SSD's in cell phones and media players well before they hit the laptop scene. Either way this is great news for us.

]]> By: Barry http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/are-hard-disk-drives-facing-extinction/#comment-53445 Barry Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:52:49 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-53445 Part of me tells me that this could happen well before 2013, especially since Samsung announced a 16GB flash drive already this year. The question is whether the harddrive industry is going to milk what they current have into an astronomically long product lifecycle. <br /> <br /> BTW does Samsung still make HDD's anymore? If not, then it would be in their best interested to push this SSD technology. Part of me tells me that this could happen well before 2013, especially since Samsung announced a 16GB flash drive already this year. The question is whether the harddrive industry is going to milk what they current have into an astronomically long product lifecycle.

BTW does Samsung still make HDD's anymore? If not, then it would be in their best interested to push this SSD technology.

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