Solid State Hard Drives

[Zuntar]

There are some definite incentives for the industry to move towards solid state hard drives (http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/13/flash_based_hard_drives_cometh/index.html). They will be noticeable faster, they will utilize less power, and they are much more resilient to shock and vibration. Sounds great to me! Now what about the cons?

[RWB]

That was a damned good read, I really want one now... I don't care about the write times too much, it's not like they are bad, just slightly slower and I don't plan on using 32GB drives for fileserver use anyways so all the other benefits make this one hell of a buy if you can afford it. The power consumption could really help out the laptop's battery life from the looks fo things.

[Qeldroma]

Size is the big issue- and with Vista being able to take up to half of the drive with its footprint, I wouldn't use it for a boot drive either ... especially at current prices.

But they will get bigger and cheaper ... and likely faster.