It landed in a "wooded area" so it may have gone through a forest canopy, understory, bushes, etc. all of which may have slowed it down before it hit the ground. The story doesn't say where it happened so it's hard to know what the vegetation might have been like.
Ah, but if the console makers wanted to use them, the economy of scale provided by increasing SSD production to meet the demand would lower the price somewhat, plus, they don't pay retail.
So I'm very short on PCI-E and molex cables for my SLI 460s. FrozenCPU sells PCI-E cable splitters, 1 to 2. Is it possible to run a 460 with a single dedicated PCI-E cable from the PSU split into two? Thanks!