[Zadillo @ Apr 10th 2007 8:16AM]

As cool as this is, I am still curious why we don't see more than a half hour increase in battery life from an SSD disk compared to a hard drive. It makes me wonder if the cost and significantly smaller storage space is worth it.

Or I guess maybe the primary purpose is the faster data access than a hard drive.

[muaddib420 @ Apr 10th 2007 8:35AM]

Zadillo:

it's a first step. the costs are only going to go down. i'm actually suprised it's this "cheap" of a premium. this has all kinds of practical benefits besides decreased energy usage. less moving parts means less chance of mechanical failure. military and industrial uses are enhanced. seek times much less.

but one problem i see is data retrieval in case of failure would be tricky if not impossible.