That's a good pattern, one I use too. But that's not what the article was about - it was making the case that SSD would soon reach similar capacities as spinning HDs, and at similar prices. I'm skeptical too.

I believe we are already at the point where SSDs are large enough and cheap enough for the majority of use cases. It's only going to get better. There has always seemed to be a price floor for hard disks, where making them smaller doesn't make them any cheaper, and I'm wondering if the floor won't be lower for SSD.

I use spinning disks for archival backups. It's been reported that SSDs aren't reliable for that. Hard disks also are questionable for long term storage, which means I rotate them often, but still.

Anecdotally, USB sticks I throw in a drawer tend to go bad after a few years.

I'd still love to replace all the spinning disks with SSDs, though. Faster, smaller, less power, less fragile, silent, what's not to like? Hope the longevity issue gets better.