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<\/a>4TB SanDisk Optimus Max SSD<\/p><\/div>\n
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The reason we’re talking about inconceivably expensive SSDs for the average consumer\/gamer is the trickledown effect \u2013 sooner or later, these are the sorts of capacities we can expect in our PCs.<\/p>\n
With 6 TB and 8 TB drives expected to release in 2016 and 2 TB drives only recently making waves in the consumer market, we expect to see those SSDs hit the market in 2018 \u2013 but that’s purely as an estimation on our part.<\/p>\n
What we also find particularly interesting is just how quickly SSD capacities are eclipsing HDDs. It’s an exponential growth for SSDs, in fact.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>SanDisk: SSD vs HDD Trends.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The performance advantages of SSDs when compared to HDDs has quickly become a case of night and day, but they’re still pretty costly and, for the most part, lack in the storage department.<\/p>\n
SanDisk’s Optimus Max drives are, hopefully, an indication of things to come.<\/p>\n
Imagine, the ability to store every Steam game in your library, every song and virtually every movie on one SSD \u2013 all with the incredible speed that comes with it.<\/p>\n
Of course, by the time 8 TB drives are available on the market for your everyday gamer, 4K and even 8K games and videos will be a pretty standard affair, and they’re going to require a lot more hard drive space.<\/p>\n
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