With ever technology that we have or have ever produced the life cycle is the same. The technology is discovered, refined and refined until it seems like such a mundane act; ultimately the prices for these devices fall right out from under them. It seems the devices basically are just throw away items.

And that’s when it starts.

Take in to account about 5 years ago the price of a hard drive dropped to a point where you were paying $1 per gigabyte; so $100 for 100gb. That was the turning point. People started understanding that this can’t be the end-all-be-all of data storage- there’s got to be a better way…

The quote from Thomas Edison, ‘Discontent is the first necessity of progress.’ is the driving point of every human invention. When it can be done better or people are dissatisfied with the status-quo, it’s time to change.

While the standard hard drives have been good workhorses for a long time, the new age of storage is the SSD [Solid-state drive].

The discontent of the old hard drives were that the transfer rates were just too slow. This is a ripple affect on everything of a Operating System and subsequent application functions. PC’s can process numerous functions very quickly, but normally it’s just waiting for information to get there. It’s the very bottle neck that everyone wants to rid themselves of…

As with every new product, or device, the cost of the ‘NEW’ stuff is excessive. If you want the new stuff your going to pay high-dollar. It’s not until the product is made standard and manufacturing has simplified the production that the prices start to come down.

Again, in the cycle of processes the cost will come down, production will be rudimentary and what was acceptable will become unacceptable, thus spawning a new life cycle and creation of alternative storage.

At the time of this document, the perfect marriage of these to options is the implementation of the Operating System loaded on a SSD and the storage provided by a standard hard drive. Later on, surely it’ll be a booting from something faster and storage on the SSD and so on…

Technology is the most expensive habit I’ve and I’ve yet to lose love for it. Lord help me.

Thanks for reading!

Enjoy.

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