I don't know if that's an apples to apples comparison given SDHC cards still don't really overcome the read/write limits inherent in standard flash memory that SSHDs do.

I thought THAT was the primary difference.

Duh, I though that would be kind of obvious, with SSD having more bandwidth in terms of pins per connector than SDHC.

Are they really comparable in the first place? I mean, isn't SDHC meant for portability? I don't think I'd want to have it as a main HD in the first place.

Would it be that hard to find a new picture for the almost daily stories about SSD's?

@spatchpatch:
A new picture? No. A better picture? Yes.

I was about to ask why Snake was in the picture. And then BAM! ...there it hit me.

How much of the speed difference can be attributed to SATA vs. USB (they did use USB card readers, right?)

couldn't a SDHC to SATA interface be worked up? They have one for CF.

They should have used some of these:

[www.syba.com]

The dual one takes two CF cards, last time I searched newegg there were 32GB versions.

This is great stuff for future portables, spinning platters will always have a little risk to them.

I'm guessing, this is going to drive up regular hard drive prices, while the solid state drives are going to come down in price. Same way it did for ram modules.

usb has a max theoretical bandwidth of 60mB/s, sata has a max theoretical of 300mB/s as sata II of course But how ssd and sdhc are managed are completely different, so you really cant compare them unless you are willing to refurbish a sdhc card to have an actively powered 8+mB high performance buffer that internal hdd/ssd's have while having the same use of bandwidth like sata or dumb down the ssd to a usb interface where you wont ever see that 90mB throughput.

Well for a SDHC card to read and write at PATA speeds i think thats really good.
I doubt SDHC's are going to be used on anything but phones, cameras and other multi-media devices.
I doubt a computer is going to use SDHC as a hard drive.
It would be really good to have an SDHC as a ram alternative like what vista offers with its readyboost feature. Which i think no one uses except those who have those old ass computers with barely enough ram to run the system.

well the thing is..... if youre running vista you wont want less then a gig anyways... and the whole ready boost option on thumbdrives/flashdrives seems rather pointless to me...... system ram performs as gigs a second.... a usb device performs optimistically at 30megs a second if someones pc is performing so poorly that 30megs a second makes a difference.... they need a new pc ^_^

Using SDHC as an HDD replacement isn't for microsoft users. It's for those who know enough to avoid microsoft.

People use SD and CF cards as storage in silent or no-moving-part PCs. This includes HTPCs, MythTV frontends, Car PCs, backup servers (for the OS, not the storage), etc.

Amazing things are being done with minimal resource machines. Memory cards are not just for portability, that's just how windows users see them.