[citation][nom]figgus[/nom]I'm not sure I see the point, to be honest. SSDs are great for boot drives and often used programs, but to use them for "storage" beyond that just isn't cost effective.Are you really going to store movies and music on an SSD? Even if you did, would you need that kind of speed?What use is a smaller, faster external drive?[/citation]
Two words: Virtual Machines
My VMs run as fast on my laptop with an SSD than they do on my desktop with a regular HD - even though the CPU on the desktop blows the laptop away. Additionally, if you're a developer-on-the-go, being able to easily move your whole workspace, email, development tools, documents, etc around from machine to machine (as long as the machine has VMWare installed) kicks ass.
Now if only someone would just put USB3 ports on a laptop that has a decent display and doesn't look/feel like a PoS I'd be able to upgrade my laptop, get one of these drives, and stop copying my VHD snapshot-files back and forth... Thought Dell was going to put USB3 on this year's Covet, but apparently that's not the case...
Cheers,
CList