Lord_Majestic - 12:26 pm on Aug 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

If the storage capacity of solid-state drives is adequate for the job

But my small hatchback car is adequate for me personally, however public transport is based around big buses, trains or even airplanes - all of which have much higher capacity than something that is adequate to me.

If you look at it from business point of view then having much lower cost of magnetic disks is going to win the day - you simply have no chance with same GB of storage costing 30 (!) times more.

If you look at who is making Flash you will see same manufacturers who make RAM. They often shift production from one to another to maximise their profits, in effect dramatic (order of magnitude) falls in price are simply not going to happen. It was the consumers that demanded bigger flash sticks that drove this production in the first place, but now the sizes are high enough for consumers to keep their data, which is why those manufacturers are turning to business applications of their stuff but it simply not going to work as easy because they will be competing with big magnetic disks directly now whereas before they were competing with much smaller (yet magnetic too) floppy disks.

Ain't going to happen - price competition in hosting business is such that even 50% higher storage price is bad, here we have 3000% bigger.