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SSDs pretty common in datacentres now
but yeah depends what you're doing, normal harddrives will last another couple of years I guess.

Still won't replace HDD's until they lower in price per GB. This 15TB samsung drive costs $5k-10k+ by most estimates, vs a cheap 10GB HDD that has proven reliability etc.
You think? Mechanical hard drive development has pretty much hit a wall the last few years. SSD prices and capacity will likely match and exceed that of mechanical drives within 5 years, if not sooner.
More devices have HDDs now than ever before; cars, games consoles, set-top boxes etc. As long as HDDs remain cheaper and more economical than SSDs there'll continue to be a huge market for them both in consumer electronics and mass-storage for enterprise.
More devices have HDDs now than ever before; cars, games consoles, set-top boxes etc. As long as HDDs remain cheaper and more economical than SSDs there'll continue to be a huge market for them both in consumer electronics and mass-storage for enterprise.
For datacentres that rent out servers - who pays the price of the SSD - the end-user.
So until the end-users/customers want to pay the extra for SSDs then HDDs are not going anywhere.