Flash drives, in the past few months, have seen a steady decline in price despite the upsurge in capacity. Its various applications range from portable data storage to mp3 players. Now, the next evolution of data storage is upon us in the form of the Solid-State Drive, SSD, which is 
basically a flash-based hard disk minus the revolving disk. The largest capacity to date is made by PQI at 2.5-inch sized 256 GB drive. So far, Sony, Samsung and Fujitsu are some of the manufacturers who have incorporated the 1.8-inch SSDs into their laptops which have benefited from more compact size and increased data transfers speeds. With less mechanical parts, these SSDs promise faster access to stored data and less wear and tear. Unfortunately, the durability issue is still a question that still needs to be answered before totally scraping the hard disks of today. With the development of SSDs and new technology, however, there’s no doubt that the HDDs of today may well be soon overrun by the SSDs of tomorrow.
