still too pricey obviously for most (me included), but in the few deployments I've used them in (tablets in rugged PC's in factories on PIV's and in yard trucks), you can't help but love durability.
For other uses, just not enough benefits yets to offset the cost and with both drives (ssd, and non-ssd) dropping in price each year by about the same factor, it's gonna be a while with current tech until SSD becomes a price/storage competitor to mechanical drives for me as I just have no need for that kind of speed yet. Although when I got a box of SSD's for work for above said applications, I did take the time to build a mini server and setup a raid 0 config with all the SSD's and compared it to a single drive for read/write and then compared vs my velociraptor setup.
it was fun, the SSD's obviously were faster, but the raptors held their own. The SSD raid was lagging in write performance, but I am not sure if the adaptec card I was using for raid had the byte size set correctly as the raid was only slightly faster than the single drive.
It wasn't apples to apples due to system differences, but it was fun to see the SSD's rocking, but for some reason to me there's an amount of reassurance and a soothing nature to hearing the raptors running and writing data!
Ah, the white noise of 10k to 15k RPM drives, of course nothing worse than the sound they make when they fail.
