Solid state drives offer a number of advantages over traditional platter-based hard disks: they are smaller, faster and less prone to failure because they lack moving parts. But the big reason we aren't all using them is that they cost far more than a traditional hard disk drive. A quick check of Newegg shows several models of 80 GB SATA hard drives for under $40. The least expensive 80 GB SSD is $363. That's quite a difference. But a representative of Samsung, which makes both types of drives, recently suggested that the two will reach price parity within the next few years. Read more here:
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