the future of hard disks?

As much foresight as I thought I had when putting together my gaming rig, my once spacious 120 gig drive is now overflowing with...stuff. This situation is unacceptable, and I either need to start deleting with extreme predjudice, or, throw money at the problem and buy a new hard drive. Which are about 25% cheaper since I built my system.

Coincidentally, M-Systems was brought to my attention. They are the first company that I've seen that offer completely solid-state flash disks of up to 35 gigabytes in size. Obviously the larger capacity drives are of the SCSI variety, and cost upwards of $18,000 US, but the concept itself is extremely intriguing. The sustained read/write times on this thing are simply amazing. The Flash File System (FFS) is also completely transparent to your OS. It's treated like any other fixed drive. The company has obviously positioned themselves in the "highly reliable data storage" market because these things can operate at extreme environmental conditions and are without any moving parts. They would be perfect for airborne reconaissance missions like in Behind Enemy Lines. I bet Owen Wilson wished he had one of these.