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The move makes sense when looking at the market's state. 7200RPM mobile hard drives have always been a premium product and are mostly found in high-end laptops or built-to-order configurations. Due to the decline in SSD prices over the last few years, the market for faster hard drives has quickly faded away because users seeking for performance have opted for SSDs instead of 7200RPM hard drives. While 7200RPM 2.5" hard drives are still significantly cheaper per GB than SSDs, even a small (32-128GB) SSD will provide better overall performance when used as an OS and applications drive... How much SSD space would you need to give up spinning drives entirely?
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Yes, because everyone wants to sacrifice long lasting drives for dubious life spans of SSD's.
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: sacrifice long lasting drives for dubious life spans of SSD's
I would not exactly call HDD's immortal either. I've had several fail.
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And what about their 15K 2.5" drives? Are they discontinuing them also, or the argument is flawed is it not?
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Reading one of the comments, it says that the author of that article did not read the original article very well. It seems they will stop selling purely hard drives but instead only sell their SSD/HDD hybrids. (As well as just SSD)
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