Economies and financial markets may be crashing, Intel and Samsung have made some amazing leaps forward with their latest Solid State Drives, check out these tests! Sure, these SSDs are still expensive, but the investment returns will be HUGE;
Power usage of Intel’s new storage media is around 5% of that from mechanical harddisks. Say you are Google and you serve about 100 petabytes of data each day, consider the energy savings (95%!) when you would use SSDs instead of doing it the old way..
I think SSDs will revolutionize computing almost two times faster than ‘predicted’ by Moore’s law! The storage medium is no longer the bottleneck it always was.