SSD's are Doomed: According to Researchers.

If they can't shrink SSDs any further then they still have the option of simply manufacturing them in 3.5" form. And a new technology always comes along.

What's clear is that HDDs are too much of a bottleneck to be used for anything other than bulk storage. Hybrid drives already exist and if data was assigned a priority tag then you could put things like games on flash and video on mechanical. Windows 8's Storage Spaces does away with the concept of physical drives and allows you to assign specific data to specific drives, so you could specify individual games within your Steam folder to a SSD.

I have read time and time again about how CPUs were reaching the limits of technology and every time they find a new way to progress. Even if SSDs are a short-term fix they are still much appreciated. I wouldn't even consider a HDD for a boot drive.
 
Prior to 1783 physicists believed manned flight was impossible. In the 1940's it was widely believed that breaking the speed of sound was impossible. In the 1950's putting a man in space was impossible. Just ten years ago taking silicon below 50nm was seen as impossible.

At the end of the day, once silican reaches it's true phyical nanotechnoligical limitations, mankind will find an alternative solution.

One day, Scotland may even win the World Cup.
 
By 2024 this will be least of our worries. Sub 11/9 nm silicon processes are fraught with theoretical problems -- i.e. break down of classical electrodynamics. I wouldn't expect current SSD technology to last anywhere near 2024. We should have moved to organic transistors by then or we'll be rightly and truly screwed. But that trend is already emerging strongly. Single molecule organic transistors is a hot area of research in nanoscale electronics.
 
Being rather long in the tooth, I can remember when prohibitive prices made hard drives uncommon on home computers - A 20Mb (yes, you read that right) HD cost well into 3 figures !
I also remember when people started fitting HDs into the Commodore Amiga, sometime in the early 90's, & realising that there was a limit on the size of drive that it's file system could handle. That limit was 4Gb, but they said "It's OK, there'll NEVER be a drive that size"

The moral is: Don't worry about the future, it'll sort itself out by the time we get there. ;)
 
What is reassuring for me is that people are looking ahead to the tech hurdles, giving time to focus on solutions, rather than waiting until it's too late.
 
Ubergeek said:
Being rather long in the tooth, I can remember when prohibitive prices made hard drives uncommon on home computers - A 20Mb (yes, you read that right) HD cost well into 3 figures !
I also remember when people started fitting HDs into the Commodore Amiga, sometime in the early 90's, & realising that there was a limit on the size of drive that it's file system could handle. That limit was 4Gb, but they said "It's OK, there'll NEVER be a drive that size"

The moral is: Don't worry about the future, it'll sort itself out by the time we get there. ;)
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Well, in original FAT the limit was 2GB.
I had a 600MB quantum fireball in my amiga 1200 (never got close to filling it) way back when and that was probably about £180 worth when it was bought.
 
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