Are Solid State Hard Drives Worth the Extra Cash? @ Digital Trends

Our opinion on the subject varies.  On the surface anything solid state is better than something with moving parts that's just the nature of the beast.  However right now they are not very fast, they have limited capacity and they are expensive.  Granted in the right situation they are the best choice.  ie industrial systems, small form factor stuff, limited power situations, etc..

but for the average Joe (or Jane) spend a 3rd of the cash and get 9 times the storage space and when it dies go get another one.

The looming arrival of solid-state hard drives (SSD) for notebooks seems like a rather exciting development at first blush. Unlike their mechanical counterparts, which have spindle motors, rotating platters and read/write heads, solid-state drives typically consist of flash memory chips and have no moving parts whatsoever. The benefits that these drivers offer compared to a mechanical drive are numerous, and include lower power consumption, improved performance, increased durability, less chance of data loss (no heads to crash into the platters), no noise and no heat output.

Nuff said 

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