Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs?

Iddo Genuth writes "Since first entering the consumer market about two years ago, solid state drives (SSDs) have improved significantly. While prices remain substantially higher than conventional magnetic storage, it is predicted that in 2009 SSDs will finally make an impact on both the consumer and business markets bringing blazing fast speeds at reasonable prices for the first time — will it finally happen?" It seems likely, as Samsung began mass-producing both 128GB and 256GB SSDs this year. Intel and Micron have also posted recent breakthroughs which will help to bring the technology into the mainstream.

Not this year either

[Anonymous Coward]

No no no, people have too big an investment in Windows to switch over to Linu.... what? SSD? Sorry, carry on...

I think I've heard this one before...

[Pinchiukas]

...the year of SSD on the desktop.

Re:I think SSD will take off

[thetoadwarrior]

There's no reason to have Vista on any computer.

Re:SSDs are great for clumsy fools

[sleeponthemic]

I can't wait for the solid state basketball. It's going to change the world.

Re:I think SSD will take off

[Cally]

Personally I think 2009's going to be the year of the Linux desktop. Seriously.

Re:I think SSD will take off

[Matt Perry]

Nowadays I can buy a 1000 gigabyte disk drive for around $250.

Are you posting from the past?