Ryan Mr. Petersen CEO of OCZ told Fudzilla that he thought that SSD disks would supplant the hard disks (using platters) in term speed, capacity and even price by 2012.
To support his remarks he proposed a roadmap of the SSD manufacturers and the suppliers of memory. They plan to pass soon to NAND MLC memory storing 3 bits by cell (against 2 currently) and then 4. The capacity would be thus doubled for similar production costs. If one also takes into account that in two years time the density of the memories should also double. Since the SSD is faster and uses less energy, once the price comes down the end is in sight for the spinning platters.
However we are a bit skeptical concerning the price drops. Today, a 2,5" hard disk costs arbout 0,15€ GB. But after all, OCZ do not manufacturer hard disks, so it is not unexpected that they push the SSD.
