To everyone talking about file copy speeds - you're missing the point. A solid state array like this one may only get two or four times the performance of your fancy disk based systems, yes, and on that basis it may look like very poor value for money. But it's not about sequential transfer rates, it's about latency and random I/O speeds, and on those metrics solid state systems utterly crush disk ones. The ones we tested (see my post a few above this one) utterly crushed out disk based SAN, by hundreds to one; the disk based SAN was 60 15k RPM SCSI drives.

Now, why would you need or want this at home? No reason I can think of!

Here in work, back in 2005, I was involved in hands-on load testing of our production database server on a couple of competing 128Gb solid state disk systems, including a Texas Systems RAMSAN, Solid Access flash-based drives, and Baydel Maracite systems. They were appallingly expensive, around the $100k mark, and appallingly quick -- some of my synthetic tests recorded 1 gigabyte per second read speed and 900 megabyte per second write speed. Us engineer types recommended the purchase but the business nixed it in the end.

It was so fast that we broke Windows software RAID, which we were using for one of the configs that didn't have hardware RAID support -- in fact, we are the uncredited source of the quote in the fourth paragraph of http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/harder_hard_drives/.

@brownd: they have DivX support. Unless that comes in the fall Xbox 360 update this year, in which case you still have a point. Still, this box is only a little more expensive than a Core XBox 360, and comes with free n-grade wifi and is probably a hell of a lot smaller and quieter, so it's not a terrible proposition over all.

I would very much like to win something kthxbye

I would very much like to win something kthxbye

I would very much like to win something kthxbye

3 gadgets per round * 37 rounds = 111 gadgets so far, and still they keep coming!

Oh, and, can I have prizes please?

me me me!

I would like to enter your competition, kthxbye

I love lamp!