And once non-spinning drives (SATA SSD / NVMe / who knows what the future holds) becomes the norm, then all of these concerns will be nothing more than historical artifacts to read to our grandchildren before bedtime.
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Many, and likely the majority, of retail consumer PCs (especially laptops, but even desktops) only have solid-state storage. We just need the big manufacturers (e.g, Western Digital and Seagate) to make higher profits from producing and selling SSD compared to HDD at a large scale.