Hitachi’s CTO, Hu Yoshida, says that Solid-State drives may someday replace regular hard drives. Personally, I say, Duh. It is unfortunate that flash based memory is still to expensive to be the primary storage technology in the data center. Think about it, Standard hard drives are really the only “mechanical” High Tech left. As always, birds will fly, fish will swim and anything with moving parts is doomed to failure. This Technology will help the stress levels of many a small business owner and corporate IT guy alike. Not to mention the user experience, Solid state drives are 10x – 17x faster than standard drives.
I cannot wait to finally be able to buy a 1tb solid state for $200, but that is at least 3 years out. So for now ill just have to wait.

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