Traditional hard drives are still wildly cost effective compared to solid state drives, but that doesn't mean SSD isn't the future. Western Digital bought an SSD company SiliconSystems for $65 million today, as a nice little hedge against the day when HDD's are utterly obsolete. Seagate announce SSD plans recently, too. [WD]
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I have a feeling we are going to see a few more hybrids of these drives soon. Say a 32GB SSD on a 500 GB drive. Allow you to put the OS and other programs on the SSD to increase boot up times.