easily, it'll just not be SSD's as we know them now, they'll be made of the silk of a GM spider so the surface of the silk acts like flash memory of today. Or Hair Gel with some carbon nanotubes mixed up in it and just poured on to bare flash memory.

actually. I'm applying for dragons den/americian inventor/etc as soon as I finish writing this, so you don't steal my fab idea

Last I checked, the price of a given amount of storage was getting cut in half every 9 months for SSDs and about every 12 months(haven´t checked recently) for hard drives. So it´s at least POSSIBLE that SSDs or something similar could replace hard drives in a decade or two.

So Many Time I've Reinvented World+ME, Poeples Think:Dumb. Well i decided to include Photo of MY Service Boots & I D rashek. http://www.geocities.com/tsvondrashekmd/st.jpg 

How, well in 1961. when U of Mn offered huge copper plates for Hardrive(to this lab) & $50,000.00 for q. freebies, I studied thought, How can optical(I passed to Oscar) be capable of so much smaller of window, while being Much larger in size of basic elements. So Hacking with Osiloscope, I came up with 'focused" Magnetism. it was picked up(By-You Guess it, todays mfg-s of perpendicular, even way back then), yet never marketeed(it takes time to Steal Stuff). So from Inside Bench. as world wasted it monies, those of Vain pursuit kept Ulties dynamic idea from public useage. 
Perpendicular is good & next round of perpendicular is coming. eg 2tb. its 20% smaller window, I believe with more discs? meaning made HDD twice size.

No doubt SSD has its day coming & Ulties Invention, just another Non enitty, excepting MY Maxtor team, MY Boots & MY Memories. & Now You, consuming Public, Right Now Can Take Full Advantage..

If you puter has open sata slots or media sata slot or just to have removable storage OR Instal SATA Card, Then Never has Memory in HHD been better deal & unlikely to collaspe much further in $. Install ALL those Open Slots. You'll Be Glad You Did & So Will I.
Remember Mator has cloning & just better/easier to use software, too.
Thomas Stewart von Drashek

"Seagate has no plans to release SSD drives for consumers as the high prices could deter them for the next few years”

What the heck? I'm currently considering buying a Dell laptop with a 64GB SSD. Yes, it adds $500 to the price tag and is less than the 80GB standard drive, but it also consumes 0.05W of power idle (most drives are 0.3 - 0.6W) and very little while in use, plus it's extremely fast.

Laptop with 6-10 hours of battery life w/64GB of storage for about $2K all-in? Sounds like a deal to me.

I don't know what Seagate are smoking...