Marfig :
My point was that we need to hit some manufacturing milestones yet before SSD technology becomes anything more than a pipe dream of mainstream computing. I should have elaborated.
Consider this, despite all the advantages we recognize in SSDs, their $/GB has been an inconvenience not just to our wallets but to the use we can make of the added performance. And we then learn that increasing capacity raises that dollar per GB ratio even further to nearly unmanageable levels. So, the closer an SSD gets to become a broad scope drive, the more we have to pay for it. Up to a point where a 1TB SSD costs as much as 10 240GB SSD.
Despite the coolness of the technology (which I'm not going to dispute), there's a real manufacturing process problem here that we need to overcome.
It has always been the case the that $/GB on the largest drives are higher than the lower drives and that is usually from a few things
1) The cost to have densities that high are much more expensive that lower densities
2) There is more R&D that goes into having devices this high end
3) Usually more parts in the larger capacity drives (platters for HDD, chips for SSD) that they warranty
Look at the cost of 4TB drives and even 3TB drives, it shows there as well in the HDD sector
Also, to have 10 240GB SSD's, you would need an add in controller card, granted the cost for that will not be that much in comparison to the drive cost, but it is another part and expansion slot that is used, then there is the amount of power and space that having 10 times more drives (for ssd's power is pretty much negligible, but space is not)
btw if you think this is expensive, check out the enterprise grade drives compared to enterprise grade HDD's, there is a huge price difference at the same capacity there as well
I for one would be all for lower $/GB SSD's, but there are a myriad of reasons to why this is not so