>>> I wouldn't be able to cite and articles on the subject, but it seems to
>>> me that the mechanical HD is headed the way for the dodo bird
>>
>> What, forced to extinction by loss of habitat and alien predator
>> species? ;-)
>>
>
> It was just a metaphor ... I supposed the alien predator would be the
> solid state drive, and now that I think of it the loss of habitat would
> be the new ultra-books ... oh and the MacBook Air

So... oddly apt then? ;-)

I don't know, man. SSD is still too expensive for anyone except 
performance freaks. More bafflingly, even though the performance of SSD 
should be orders of magnitude superior to HD, apparently some of the 
best HDs can actually surpass SSD. That shouldn't be possible, but 
somehow it is. I find that utterly bizarre, but those are apparently the 
numbers.

Whether SSD will /become/ cheap enough remains to be seen. It's now 
available in capacities large enough to actually be useful, so now we 
just need the prices to come down far enough.

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