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I think you might have misread kbob’s comment. I think he was talking about upgrading from one SSD to another newer SSD — not from HDD to SSD.

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It would be stunning for SSDs to take off with exponential speed improvements. Sure, I expect them to get faster and faster, but I have no doubt that there's no Moore's Law at work in this case. I stand by my original comment.

It has nothing to do with speed, it has to do with transistor counts, which should increase disk size or lower cost.

I totally agree. Moore's Law is completely inapplicable when it comes to disk performance.

Which is a strawman of your own invention that you are being an arse about, kbob didn't mention SSD performance.

kbob was replying to a post about a "performance boost" and then claimed without qualification that HDs were "on the Moore's Law trajectory"... I didn't invent anything here.

Moore's law is about transistor counts, not speed, and is directly applicable to SSDs.

It really depends. Taking a hard black&white stance on other side is just silly.

Say you have an SSD that consists of 8x16GB chips. Internally it's implemented in something like a RAID0 array, which is why they're so fast. If the capacity doubles / size shrinks by a factor of 2 and someone decides to stick 16x16GB chips in the next gen SSD then you will see a speed increase. On the other hand if they go for 8x32GB you won't.

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