Comment Are you looking at the wrong metric? (Score 1) 681
Hard drives may still be much cheaper in terms of $/GB, but that is only the important number for geeks who actually care about big drives.
The important number for the mass market is the minimum price for a new drive of minimally usable size (call it 32-64 GB for now, it's drifting up, but not terribly quickly by the standards of exponential tech progression). And I suspect that SSDs will surpass HDDs in that metric fairly soon. A hard drive has a certain amount of unavoidable manufacturing complexity and materials requirements, no matter what the capacity, whereas a SSD is basically just chips and can be made almost arbitrarily cheap as fabrication technology leads to fewer and smaller chips being required for the same capacity and performance.
In a five years or so, I expect the "drive" on most new computers to be just another $10 chip on the motherboard.