SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?

gjt writes "When Intel and OCZ recently announced new 'affordable' Solid State Disk drives — offering a meager 32-40GB — we initially yawned. But, then we took a closer look at the press releases and the in-progress research and development in SSD technology and opened our eyes. While the new drives aren't affordable on a cost per gigabyte basis for everyone, it does set a precedent — and most importantly a barometer price of $100. And it really does start the death clock for hard drive technology."

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In 5 years

[dark grep]

No one will remember disk drives used to have moving parts.

dependability?

[FudRucker]

i have one PC i leave booted up and running with Linux on it 24/7/365 and it is about 10 years old, those IDE/PATA drives are incredibly dependable, they had dirty/hard umounts from power failures many times and ext3 recovered nicely each time, they had various Linux releases installed on them several times, plus /home getting written to many many many times.

how is the SSD's dependability going to compare like under the same conditions?

not as good?
as good?
better?