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Most likely, solid-state drives will someday replace one of computing's mainstays, the conventional hard drive -- but not just yet, it would seem. ArsTechnica found "moderate" performance improvements of the 64-gigabyte (GB) solid-state drive over the standard 80-gigabye (GB) hard drive in Apple's MacBook Air, for example, and the high price will keep customers away for some time (typically $2 to $3 per GB, compared to about $0.38 per gigabyte for hard drives). Though solid-state drives are theoretically faster and have no easy-to-break moving parts, they're more susceptible to abrupt power loss, and don't yet have the storage capacity of conventional hard drives. While SSDs will almost certainly be the future, it looks like they won't be the present for quite some time.
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Subscribe to commentsziaDec 31st 2008 9:32AM
where's hoverboard - that flops every year because the big office guys use the spied on kids ideas & every year they wonder why it flops.
TVGeniusJan 1st 2009 5:27PM
Saw some buffoon on the Today Show this morning yammering about how 2009 was going to be the year of the SSD. He said to make sure to stay away from the iPod Touch though, since it still used a fragile spinning hard drive. I love too how he made a big deal about how a SSD/Flash based camcorder would save you from having "tapes and tapes". Where is he proposing to put all that video once it's been shot? DVDs and DVDs? Hard drives, so once it fails you lose your kids' entire childhood of videos?
I'll keep my MiniDVs, thanks.