at what point did hardware manufacturers give up on making really fast HDDs (like picrel) and let SSDs take over? my first desktop from 2009 or so had a 7200rpm drive, and then the Xbox One i got later used a 5400rpm one. i just find it strange because (to me) things were all over the place. my older sister's laptop from ~2019 still came with a mechanical drive, but it was during the era where they tried to cope with Optane (which afaik didn't work out well for consumers). i'm sorry if this is really incoherent and dumb but just a simple outline would be nice
>>1085173752007 was when it slowly began
>>108517375it was around the x25-m g2 they realized the battle was lost but continued making high speed drives for SAS because it still matters
>>108517375I got a Revodrive in like 2011 for my main PC. Was a PCIe card with a SATA controller and two SSDs on it in RAID0.
>>108517375>>108517390Raptors were sweet, I also scored some 15k RPM SCSI drives around the same time they came out, obviously too poor to buy them though at that time but later I used them as game drives in RAID0 with the SSD for the OS.
>>108517375The only reason HDDs are still around is because of the sheer amount of data they can hold and the fact that the bits you save don't magically go *poof* if you leave it in cold storage for more than a year.SSDs are already unbeatable for them in terms of speed so they focus on size and reliability.
I just got flashbacks from that dark era where they sold drives that were hard disk with a bit of ssd in it
>>108517375Around win8, when everything was moving towards laptops and small tech. You could have used og win10 on hdd but it was slow.
>>108517375SSDs started to take over around 2014 or so but HDD speed never really went over 7200rpm, there were some models that were faster for consumers but most people always went for the 7200rpm.If you wanted faster speeds then raid was needed.
>>108517375high speed HDD are considered inferior for consumer use now because they're loud and annoying, and anybody who cares about speed isn't buying a HDD. high speed HDD are still around for businesses who need it.
>>108517375Have you looked at the higher quality models?They're 7200rpm and 200+MB/s.
