You have it backwards. . . The only reason for using a spinning platter drive anymore is cost of larger storage capacity is cheaper. . . and that is usually used in server applications in RAID arrays where a failed drive can be hot swapped out live without losing any data because the data is mirrored on other drives for safety. It wont be too much longer before even that advantage will be lost, because servers don’t typically do much data writing, which is what wears out NAND SSD memory drives. . . and the cost reduction of high capacity of NAND chips and the reduction of energy to operate them is so much lower than running and cooling spinning drives, that alone will eventually doom mechanical HDD storage.
TSMC is building a chip foundry in Arizona that will be producing ICs that can use 5 nanometer traces. Samsung’s just started using 7 nanometer. That can drop the chip power consumption down considerably. TSMC is Apple’s primary IC maker for their Apple designed A13 SoC (System on a Chip) processors that drive their iPhones and iPads which benchmark better than some of the latest laptop Intel i5 chips at higher power consumptions!. . . In fact, better and faster than the intel i5 Apple itself puts in their entry level MacBook Pro!
“You have it backwards...”
Thank you for explanation. I guess it’s been a while since my last computer purchase. It was different then, which was only 3-4 years ago. :)