I've been keeping an eye on Solid State HardDrives for some time now. But since they cost about as much as a car (or house), I've not been overly expectant of them to arrive in the mass market.
But good news, it looks like Microsoft and Samsung have teamed up to create what they're calling a hybrid drive, that uses flash memory as a buffer to the HD. I'm thinking that Samsung has done all the work -- to the point where all of this fancy performance enhancing stuff is abstracted away into the HD itself (so that you wouldn't need a special bus to take advantage of it). But the fact that MS is pushing this technology means that it should finally find wide adoption. The hope then is that people get sick of just having 1GB 'caches' and start working up to 3-5GB caches where they work from, and then just store their GBs of data on a spinning drive.
Computers are finally about to get fast.
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