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[–] forgetmyname 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Hard drives are entirely different segment of the industry than CPUs. You are comparing tires to the price of gas.

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[–] conguero ago 

Great analogy

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[–] west_pac 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

There was a time, about 8 or 9 years ago, when computer's overall speed was limited by the various bottlenecks in the complete system. These were things like the front side bus, serial bus, memory, hard drive transfer speed, etc. Those times have passed.

Generally speaking, as of right now, modern solid state memory drives, memory, and busses can load and transfer information MUCH faster than a processor can chew through it. So really hard drives aren't going to need a speed increase for maybe another half a decade at least. The biggest challenge facing hard drives is for disks to compete with solid state, and for solid state to grow in storage capacity to the point that it makes disk drives obsolete.

Also, the physical size-on-disk of programs is unrelated to the amount of processing power required to run them. Programs are likely to get bulkier and bulkier in order to reduce processing times, because rendering takes more power than storing pre-rendered data.