Theoretical Storage Question: How many drives will be used in the future?

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OnionKing

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My question is this: The common storage setup right now is using an SSD as a boot drive, and a larger HDD for mass storage. 5 years down the road, would having a large SSD as a boot drive, and a large SSD as a mass storage drive OR using a single large SSD to store the OS and Games/Software be more common? (This is all speculation, I'm curious to see what people's input may be)
 
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in the past, one single hard disk was the best solution

with ssds it is the same

if you have only one ssd to worry about, it is more desirable than having to manage space on two ssds

the new nvme on those pci express form or the ones in m.2 slots will eventually replace ssds in sata form

the sata gives at best 550 mb per second

those new nvme start at 1500 mb per second

so for a time, you will see cheap ssds starting at 480 gbs and cheap nvme m.2 ssds with 120 to 240 gbs and later only nvme of 1 or 2 tbs in size and if money allows and speed is not a concer, a 4 tb sata ssd just in case the 2 tb nvme is not enough :D
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Paul NZ

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Bigger ssd's unless theyre cheaper here, wont be an option for me. All I'm using now is 1 250 GB SSD.

I dont play games on this (which would probably take up most of the space). If I want to play games, I'll use the Xbox 1

So even if I had bigger SSD's, they'll probably still be empty or 1/2 full in 5 yrs time

The only bigger hdd is a normal hdd (1TB) which is in the bedroom. It's partitioned into 4. Thats where most of the install files, and updates etc are. That I copy to, across the home network here
 
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in the past, one single hard disk was the best solution

with ssds it is the same

if you have only one ssd to worry about, it is more desirable than having to manage space on two ssds

the new nvme on those pci express form or the ones in m.2 slots will eventually replace ssds in sata form

the sata gives at best 550 mb per second

those new nvme start at 1500 mb per second

so for a time, you will see cheap ssds starting at 480 gbs and cheap nvme m.2 ssds with 120 to 240 gbs and later only nvme of 1 or 2 tbs in size and if money allows and speed is not a concer, a 4 tb sata ssd just in case the 2 tb nvme is not enough :D
 
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