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These days, any system worth its salt should probably include an SSD, whether it be just for booting or general storage. However, when it comes to laptops, a lot of vendors do still use traditional hard drives for many cheaper models. However, that could change fairly soon, as market researchers claim that SSD adoption by laptop makers may exceed 33 percent by the end of 2016, and overtake hard drives by 2018.
The prediction was made by DRAMeXchange, a market research firm, whose statistics show that in 2015, SSDs could be found in 25 percent of notebooks globally, by the end of 2016, this should rise to 33 percent and then, by 2018, SSDs may be found in the majority of laptops around the world.
Obviously switching over to SSDs will bring plenty of benefits, like faster boot times. Some SSDs, like M.2 drives can also help save on space, allowing for much thinner designs. Whether or not SSDs will surpass HDDs in notebooks by 2018 is hard to predict but things are certainly pushing in that direction given the stats we have currently.
The report does note that SSD supplies could be tight during the second half of this year but still maintains that SSD market share in laptops should hit around 33 percent.
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KitGuru Says: Personally, I wouldn't want to buy a laptop without an SSD these days. However, given how much cheaper HDDs still are, I can see why they are still the more popular choice amongst laptop makers. How many of you guys currently own a laptop? Do you think laptop makers should start phasing out traditional HDDs in favour of SSDs?
Unless SSD’s can hit a similar price per GB ratio that hard drives have right now, its never going to happen, SSD storage is either to small or it makes the price go to high for reasonable amount of storage.
Lidl were selling a Lenovo recently with 120GB SSD for €370, I was pleasantly surprised to see that.
Sadly I think sellers are still using HDDs not because they are cheaper, but because they effectively give built-in obsolescence (machine gets slower over time) and the uninformed will then buy a new one.
There should be ad campaigns touting the benefits of upgrading your machine to SSD and you still can keep the old drive for storage if needed (albeit on the end of a cable in most cases).
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We’re already in an order of magnitude. Once SSDs are only 5x the price/GB, no one will care.
5x the price of a HDD? Ha, maybe 2x the price. But at 5x the price, i cannot see myself or many people going for only SSDs in a System. Not everyone is made of money, and can buy the very best parts for a PC.
In desktops SSDs already dominate, as most people don’t need more than 1TB anyway, and the speed is well worth it. a 1TB SSD is about $200 now. It’s well worth it.
Not everyone can just drop 200 on a SSD. There are video cards that cost that much. And I have yet to see such a large SSD sell at that price. Unless you are referring to off brand SSD that is guaranteed to break very rapidly. Find me a 1tb SSD from Intel, Samsung, or Kingston for $200.
Sandisk Ultra II 960GB was selling for $190 on Black Friday and has been available for $210 or less several times after that.
Hmm interesting. But I would like to see one that’s price stays fixed at close to $200. Afterall, the drive you mentioned isn’t just magically gonna be on sale at that price Everytime someone builds a new gaming PC. Also it can be better for the SSD if it doesn’t have to store everything. Less reads and writes increasing SSD life anyways. Its better to store only essential and extremely drive speed dependent programs on SSD, and others like most games on a Hard drive.
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#S=960000,1000000&t=0&sort=a10&page=1
There’s a few to pick from.
Also, no one is going to write that much to a SATA SSD before they rebuild their entire machine anyway.
Perhaps, but you would be surprised how often the OS reads and writes stuff to the SSD, albeit not very big chunks, and not to mention how much infomation is read for games, and how much infomation is written for updates of OS, Games, Softwares. That also depends on if person tries to carry parts over from previous build when rebuilding or doing a new build. Storage is probably the most commonly carried over from previous build part.
Interesting, the closest that is from a good brand is 26 dollars away, which is good. But after that, the next 75 dollars away, Thats the price of a brand new game worth of money. At this point it would seem a combination of SSD and HDD would still over all give the best bang for buck.
??? Since when are none of those good brands?
You can turn the OS frivolous writes off.
And how many users will do that, or even know how to. But, that still doesn’t cover program, OS, and game updates. And use of programs and games that read information. Like Battlefield 4 and 1 for examples, they read information from the drive.
Crucial is alright but not great. Patriot is hit and miss. Adata drives are only good for EXTREMELY tight budgets, I’ve never even heard of mydigital, corsair SSD’s get terrible reviews. Corsair should really just stick to peripherals and power supplies. Mushkin is a cheap quality brand which is also full of hits and misses.
Crucial (Micron) is the most used silicon for enterprise SSDs. MyDigital is a subsidiary of Crucial.
Actually Mushkin’s been killing it the last two years with their reactor series. Your knowledge is outdated.
Is it my fault that users are, in general, stupid? Those updates do not do that much in the way of writes. It’s less than 1 each actually when you consider it all goes to RAM and gets collectively written at once.
Reading is free. It’s only if you write that the SSD is degraded.