When will Hard Disk Drives transition completely to Solid State Drives?

[AgnesIO]

Under what studies and conclusion?
SSDs are a lot more likely to loose data than HDDs.

Incredibly hard to judge, as manufacturers are very quiet about this. However, return rates are (at least used to be) higher for HDDs, but that could be for a number of reasons.

SSDs are also better in portable devices due to the lack of moving parts to break every time you go over a bump.

The issue is highly contentious, but either way, HDDs definitely aren't a lot less likely to lose data than SSDs...

[Landon]

The issue is highly contentious, but either way, HDDs definitely aren't a lot less likely to lose data than SSDs...

Agreed with this - It's very minuscule and unlikely. It just makes me curious in terms of those small levels which one actually performs better with data retention.

[AgnesIO]

Agreed with this - It's very minuscule and unlikely. It just makes me curious in terms of those small levels which one actually performs better with data retention.

Yup, I think the truth is that neither is exactly optimal (hello cloud!), which would explain why even after a good few years, there still isn't a clear answer.

[Landon]

Yup, I think the truth is that neither is exactly optimal (hello cloud!), which would explain why even after a good few years, there still isn't a clear answer.

Correct me if I'm wrong - Aren't most of the large cloud data servers, take for instance Google datacenters, running on HDDs?

[AgnesIO]

Correct me if I'm wrong - Aren't most of the large cloud data servers, take for instance Google datacenters, running on HDDs?

Oh I'm not debating that - but whatever they use, every is backed up on multiple storage devices. That's the difference there!

[scottish]

Correct me if I'm wrong - Aren't most of the large cloud data servers, take for instance Google datacenters, running on HDDs?

It depends on the purpose mostly, at an enterprise level disk failure is fairly meaningless, but I've seen a hell of a lot more HDDs fail than SSDs.

[Landon]

It depends on the purpose mostly, at an enterprise level disk failure is fairly meaningless, but I've seen a hell of a lot more HDDs fail than SSDs.

True, I think in this case though we are debating as if it were in good conditions and stable.

[AgnesIO]

True, I think in this case though we are debating as if it were in good conditions and stable.

Stable devices in good condition don't just 'lose' data, though?

[Shorty]

I finally made the move this week, got rid of my 10 year old 500GB HDD for a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB.
Now I've got my OS on my 500GB SSD and my 120GB SSD (which was my OS setup) is now my spare space/backup drive and binned my HDD.

The answer to your OP is when SSD's become cheaper than a HDD, which in some cases it already is, but for more capacity it's still more expensive. Newer SSD's are a lot more stable than the ones a few years ago, so it's one less thing to worry about.