Expect 1TB SSDs a lot sooner then that  :P

Acer already announced (2 months ago~) 1TB 2.5" SSD's with their Lamborghini Laptops

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Expect Seagates 2TB HDD's sooner then that too :D

They secretly announced their 2TB HDD's are coming in a month (May)

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OCZ expects to have 4TB SSD PCI-Slot drives by the end of the year :D

If interested I can provide ya with links, just thought Id throw that out there for those that didn't know :)

While they have their pros and cons, I'm most skeptical of their limited write cycles. It shouldn't be a problem with most files, but what about OS files that are changed, or rewritten, or temporary files, those can be erased and rewritten a lot of times.

SSD/Flash memory is the future, much less prone to any issues than a regular spinning disc HDD.

This is great news as this drive will get used by the ones that can afford it now and then the price will gradually go down so the normal consumer can afford it and then it will only grow from there.

I've said this before, I expect SSD to be the next way to distribute media through retailers, not BluRay.

SSD wont take over as a portable media format. SSD is a replacement for the HDD.

Not to open Pandora's box again, but some have been saying that advances in SSD will present a challange to brd and other formats. They are faster, and far cheaper on system requirements in design, sicne you need less pwoer and heat dissapation. Anyway, in another year or two, these will be really affordable. The current financial meltdown makes this feasible, since it's selling at low margins to convince frugal shopper of the need to get these things.

Oh I'm sorry, the organizers at thie conference who chose to hand out 64 MB flash drives instead of CDs seem to disagree with you.

similar technical components, different products.

Flash Drives are portable storage devices that can be used to transfer media files from one place to another like music . Solid State Drives are replacements for Hard Disc Drives used to store system data, media, etc including music but isnt portable unless a laptop is now being considered an MP3 player.

Advancement comes in many forms. They thought bigger platters were bigger, easier to store, yet higher speeds for biggers platters meant more force needed and possiblity or warping. This was when HDDs were almost foot wide platters and larger. Then came 5" platters for computers in the 80s, this was huge, it was now afforable and easy to get to the consumer. Why don't we use 5" platters now? We could easily fit over 1 TB per platter if we did! Well no advantage would be found, because a 5" platter can't go faster then 3200 RPM without warping. A 3.5" drive limit is said to be 10,000 RPM, and 15,000 for 2.5". Smaller, less force, but also less data, so it's a balance. Also comes this point. If there is more data per sector, a slower RPM does not mean slower read speed. A 1 TB 7200 RPM drive will easily equal a 10,000 RPM 300 gig drive in speed.

Also, atomic holographic nanostorage devices are already working and will be on the market within 5 years, they store in a 3d medium and store 1.6 PETABYTES(1.6 million GB) of data per cubic CM. They also read at 400,000 times the bandwidth of traditional drives, and write just as fast.