Personally, I think the companies see the direction the market is going and don't want to invest new money into these drives. On top of that, I think they're artificially keeping the performance of SSD's low (with the exception of the many-thousand dollar drives), in order to keep users tied to the tried-and-true mechanical drives. I think they make too much profit on the older tech and want to keep it that way, until the economy comes out of recession. Note: I'm talking US economy. Not overseas. I don't keep tabs on them.

Blowing away everything that is currently out there, would only be exciting if it were a current product. If they release a product in 18 months that blows away everything thats 18 months old at that point, who will really care?

It reminds me of the companies that were claiming that they had a product in the works that would blow away the GeForce 256 or GeForce 2. By the time they got to market (if they ever did), it was too little too late.

Anyway, the hard drive market has been dull for too long, flash prices are falling fast, speeds are ramping up, and dying cache won't hose a system that's designed to work around the mess, so this could actually be big.