2008, The Year of Solid State Storage

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At CES, SSD drives were a plenty on the show floor. "Some companies said we could see 250GB SSD units by the end of this year, while others predicted it could take up to a couple of years for them to become mainstream. None of the companies promised mainstream adoption, but they promised a bright future and we are inclined to believe them. High capacity drives are going to be expensive due to their very nature of early technology and gradual adoption rate.

Did they mention the ridiculous pricing for those large size ssd's though? This will be great for laptops (eee pc 2.0 comes in mind) and certain desktop situations as well. What worries me is the read/write life of the flash components (especially ext3 and ntfs). Was there any news on extending the life cycle of this larger capacity storage?