Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> - It appears that "solid state harddrives" are now reaching useful 
>> sizes and sane pricing levels. (E.g., when I first looked at this it 


>>
> Only problems are: a) slow (faster isn't much faster, and costs double), 
> and b) limited number of "write cycles". And, no, the 250GB one is not 
> $2/GB. lol



http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152605



As for "slow"... presumably the win is the massive decrease in seek 
time, rather than sequential transfer speed. (I think I saw a benchmark 
somewhere... but I bet I can't find it now.)

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