Is flash drive begin of the end of hard drive?

[cncrim]

I have the feeling it is? what you guy think? 256GB cram in the size of two finger sand SSD memory already in some laptop.

 

[mrjack]

I don't think it will replace ordinary hard drives any time soon, at least not for permanent storage of large amounts of data. Not until someone figures out a way to improve data retention while making components smaller, which is apparently somewhat of an issue. And the prices really have to drop.

 

[OverClocker]

With Technology, impossible is nothing.
Remember how much the word "megabyte" could fill up so much room not to mention costing you an arm to get one.

 

[DCIScouts]

The biggest obstacle I see the flash or "solid state" memory has to overcome is the issue with data corruption. The rate at which those little USB things have problems with data corruption that is not recoverable is waaaay too high for my taste of using it as any sort of long-term storage solution.

 

[CrayonMuncher]

The biggest obstacle I see the flash or "solid state" memory has to overcome is the issue with data corruption. The rate at which those little USB things have problems with data corruption that is not recoverable is waaaay too high for my taste of using it as any sort of long-term storage solution.

agreed flash drives amd ssd only have a certain amount write cycles before wear levelling becomes a problem and the data is useless, each drive quite high numbers for this but the numbers for each individual cell are quite low when you think abouthow often data is written when using your os
manufacturers have tried to work around this using firmware to spreadout how the data is written but it still isnt enough

i read recently there are also security issues with these drives due to wear leveling

 

[diduknowthat]

One day not too long into the future it'll replace the hard drive for primary OS drive, since it's so much faster. However, as for permanent long term storage, SSDs has a long way to go.