Solid State Drives?

[KillerTomato]

I was screwing around on the alienware website (damn that shits expensive...) and I saw something I've never seen before. Solid state hard drives. It apparently has no moving components and can "withstand high temperature and blah blah marking blah blah blah."

But it perked my interest. A huge flash drive? Is that essentially what it is? Because if that is so, that would mean INSANE access times, no?

[EnderW]

here is the fastest one out
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3167

[NKDietrich]

I'm always too afraid of wearing them out too fast.

[JonnyBlazexx]

Girlfriend was getting a new laptop and we looked at some solid state drives for her (shes not uh... what we would call super careful, i.e. drop the computer and the harddrive can fail etc.) the more i looked into it the more interesting the SSD's are. Longer battery life, better access times, better performance, lighter weight. No worries about conventional failure due to a drop while spinning. Of course you take it in the a$$ as far as the cost goes, and the size.... well it leaves much to be desired. even 64gb is pretty tiny now adays.

Anyways, she ended up going with a 250gb 5400 rpm harddrive. She wanted to be able to dualboot (of course i was setting it up) and the 64gb was just going to be too small.

my 5 cents