&gt; And as the original poster pointed out, for many that&#x27;s already the case.<p>Because we&#x27;re seeing, at the same time, a drive away from owning media and instead streaming them, and&#x2F;or storing data increasingly in The Cloud® and only having a small working set locally.<p>All those off-loaded will have to be stored somewhere by someone, and that someone will most likely keep using spinning rust for its better price.<p>And if you do want to keep all your data locally (e.g. because you&#x27;re living in Nowhere Innawoods and ISPs struggle to get you 6 MBit&#x2F;s), HDDs can&#x27;t keep getting bigger and cheaper fast enough.