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01/10/09
01/10/09
It is, essentially, the future of storage technology. A few years ago when capacities were still quite small and prices were higher than a crack whore, pundits claimed HDDs wouldn't get replaced for a long, long time to come. However, the pace at which SSD technology is advancing would seem to indicate that they will be overtaking HDD technology within just about a year. HDDs will go the way of the 3.5" floppy as you see them getting put it only budget systems, like $300 advertising 10 TBs of HDD storage because they can't give the HDDs away. Meanwhile laptops, gaming systems and such will have 1 to 2 TBs SSD standard.
I also wouldn't be surprised to see, within 3 years, that Microsoft releases their OS on an SSD that you drop in and it auto-configures.
01/10/09
but seriously, this thing is gonna be expensive. I remember buying my 750GB HD for over 300 bucks just a year ago. Now I can get a 1TB drive for $99.99 (the penny counts).
Give it a few years, they'll be cheaper than a crack whore on a diet...a drug diet. ZING!
01/10/09
I know what you mean. I paid $50 for my 1GB flash drive a few years ago.
01/10/09