Quote Originally Posted by Anemone View Post
SSD's have not in any way proven the durability record, it just hasn't been long enough. In XS we know all about the pains of something dying far short of it's expected life time, and we work under that pressure and accept it. But don't think for a minute that SSD's don't come without a price. The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Physical HD's have more life in them than they are getting credit for. There will be a changeover for laptops, where cost is already high per MB. But don't overestimate how long it's going to take to get durability perfected, capacities high, and costs down and do all that as physical drives are doing all the same things, lowering cost, increasing capacity and durability and speed.

I honestly like the speed of SSD's so don't take this the wrong way, but if folks are thinking that cost is going to come down by a factor of 50-75% on SSD's in a year or two, you would be wrong on that.
I agree with the durability issue - the NAND based SSD's haven't been around for that long, so it's still up in the air. I suspect it might be ok for desktop usage patterns.

They have already come down 50% in 1 year (If you recall the 32GB Mtron Pros was ~$1400 now it's about ~$700). With all the new market entrants (Intel, Patriot, OCZ, Crucial, Micron, a few others) the increase supply should push down prices farther. We are gradually seeing the commoditization of NAND SSD's. It not unreasonable to see another reduction of ~50% within 2 years time.