I think you'll find the "consumer" parts are slower multi-level cell memory. Still sound promising though.

Something else worth mentioning is that SSD do not suffer from head failure or disk crash. Eventually, I will be replacing all of my computer's hdd with ssd because of this, as backing up is such a pain.

"...SSDs offer mean time before failure (MTBF) ratings of..."

Hah! The chief hair splitter says: MTBF=Mean time between failures.

I sure hope every memory chip maker on the planet hops on the SSD bandwagon...I can't WAIT for a 256GB SSD to be in my notebook. When they'll be about the same price as similar capacity hard drives were a few years ago, that is.

the technology of solid state disk has alot of promise, but it is yet in its infancy. I am sure your numbers are askew. the technology has yet to demonstrate, or dominate as your article professes. The power consumption has shown to be as great or greater than multiplatter HDDs. The problem in the current generation is the inability to spin down! the average power draw is greater than the average hard drive, It is as of now a marketing ploy. I would want you to test battery lives with the current models versus 5400 RPM HDDs. now with the point of data safety, anything that needs to be safeguarded needs to be backed up regardless of what kind of medium it is stored on. The theoretical failure rates, and the ability to withstand several G's of impact sound promising,. The problem is their is little real word data to back that up. I am guessing the RMA rate will be equal to or great than HDD for years to come.