Will SSD's change case design?

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I was thinking about this today. Current 3.5" drives are the standard format for desktops. They can be noisy, hot and take up quite a bit of space. I look at my array of cases and each of them has a significant amount of thought given to HDD's. My ATCS 111 and 5000 both have the drives positioned behind the front intake fan and my Silverstone TJ09 has almost a separet boxed off area to isolate the heat.

With the introduction of SSD's in a 2.5" format most of these issues are removed. There is no doubt in my mind that SSD's will take over from HDD's in a fairly short period of time even in the mainstream. So how will this affect case design?
 
It's already start to change the way cases are designed for example the Corsair Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case had hot swap ssd slots at the front.
 
Yep I expect case design to change pretty fast. However 3.5" hdd are here to stay.

SSd - small drive for os ect. 3/5" hdd for large storage that speed is not required for.
Especially when they get those new machines up and running that can do something like 30TB per platter.
 
I doubt we will see a change other than will see 3.5 to 2.5 converters come as standard with all cases.

I honestly think we will see 3.5" SDD in the future

& even if 2morrow SDD drives took over 100% cases wont change other than the 3.5 bays will become 2.5 bays, As cases are restricted by the atx form factor,
opitcal drives, fan sizes, longer & longer gfx cards, hotter & hotter gfx cards.

There the benfit of sdd drives to case design is already being countered by gfxs cards
 
Obsidian case already takes 2.5 ssd into the design so were gonna start seeing it more often.

But as someone said proberly will see 3.5s moving for storage considering 1tb is so cheap now/ and 2.5 ssds as the o/s for speed/performance.
 
SSDs have long way to come before they can reach HDD's cost effectiveness for storage purposes and in the end especially cheaper MLC Flash memory has quite low number of writing times before breaking up if disk is in write intensive use.

And when price of Flash lowers enough/demand for high capacity SSDs rises I don't see any reason why they wouldn't come out in 3.5" size.
Untill that it's possible to use adapter for fitting two 2.5" SSDs into place of one 3.5" HDD so I don't see any reason for sudden changes in case designs, at least if case can fit 3.5" bays.


BTW, While having insignificant idle power draw operating power draw per size/volume of drive is same for SSDs than HDDs.
 
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