Flash Drives May Rule Laptop Market Someday

By 2013, when you buy a laptop, you may not be getting the same type of hard drive you see in them today, as Samsung and other companies move towards using a SSD flash drive.

Over at Channel Register they talk about the new hard drives and where it could go.

That’s according to market research firm In-Stat, which bases its conclusion on a survey of 389 mobile computer users. Doesn’t sound like a massive sample to draw such a conclusion, but enough for In-Stat to “weigh…the perceived benefits of SSDs with the rapidly declining cost/gigabyte trends of Flash to develop a demand sensitive forecasting model”. Users are prepared to pay a little more for SSDs in return for power saving benefits.

I think it is really great where technology is going in this regard, but I think we are still a long ways away from 300GB flash based hard drives.

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