Solid-state drives (SSD)… if you haven’t heard of them, you soon will.  They’re great for music players because there are very little moving parts involved; they don’t skip or corrupt as easy when transporting them from location to location on a daily basis.  So if something like this has been so popular in recent years in a little music player, than why not apply it to everyday computing?

Unfortunately the SSD’s of today are having live down the ’sins of their fathers’.  First-generation SSD’s were littered with errors and caveats.  The two major errors being 1) That the drives would fail impossibly fast (read/write cycles were limited) and 2) that the drives were impossibly expensive (read here as cost prohibitive for just about any average joe).  While these issues were true for the first-generation SSD’s, we’ve come a long, LONG way since then. Read all the article