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Hmmm. I could replace the disk drive I have now and it would be 1000 times faster, but it would cost $20,000. Ouch.

I do think non-volatile memory is the way of the future, but maybe not quite yet. The 80 gig model however might make an excellent swap/scratch drive for not too much money. If only I could get in in my eeepc. :)

Even a 10 Gig drive would be tremendously useful. At $30/Gig, this would mean that you could install your OS and one multiplayer game for $300. Lots of people would buy it just for that. Video editing would be another use.

I would assume that video editing is a mostly sequential workload and thus would do better on conventional drives. You can get 10 1TB drives for the price of one Fusion io card.

Now if only they could ship that huge backlog of orders.

That's what she said.

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