Hard disk drives rapidly improved and became commonplace by the 1970s.

硬盘驱动器迅速改进并在 20 世纪 70 年代变得司空见惯。

By the 1980s, Singapore was a regional manufacturing hub, and it was the world’s biggest producer of hard disk drives.

到 1980 年代， 新加坡是区域制造中心，也是世界上最大的硬盘驱动器生产国。

Today, costs have fallen so far, that hard disk drives are being replaced with non-volatile, Solid State Drives, or SSDs, as the cool kids say.

如今，成本已大幅下降，硬盘驱动器正在被非易失性固态驱动器或 SSD 取代，正如酷孩子所说。