Apple, for example, has also frustrated hard-disk drive makers by featuring solid state drives across its line of notebook computers and eliminating spinning disks in the MacBook Air, its thinnest, lightest model.

FORBES: Apple's iPad Behind $4.3 Billion Disk Drive Deal

Flash-based solid state disk (SSD) everywhere and anywhere defers or eliminates the need for additional high performance disk purchases to drive performance.

FORBES: No new storage in 2013