Solid State Drive(SSD) - $2 a GB

SSD looks very promising and the current price drops in considerably large size of the drive can bring the end of moving parts in a computer quickly than I thought. Currently a 64GB Kingston SSD is on sale for $146 at Buy dot com. Doubling the capacity pretty much doubles the price right now, SanDisk and Intel SSDs may be little more expensive. But once, the price comes down to $1 a GB, I am sure, there will be budget laptops and netbooks that will start using these drives. There is a lot of buzz about the Adata made whopping 512 GB SSD(the biggest so far), but I could not find the selling price for their drives.

Question is - if SSD is without any problem?
Not really, SSD made with cheap silicon and with poor read/write algorithm are not performing up to the mark. There is a lot of discussion on web about the performance degradation of SSD overtime. Here is an interesting and very informative perspective on SSD performance by James Hamilton. 
If you want to know more about SSD technology and architecture, SanDisk has done a great job of putting together a video presentation on SSD.