An article on News.com states that a large manufacturer (read: Dell) is getting a return rate “an order of magnitude higher” on flash based notebooks versus standard HDD notebooks. The return rates are between 10-20% compared to 1-2% for traditional hard drives. It seems that a Samsung SSD drive is to blame for lackluster performance.

The price to add on a SSD drive - $900!

As this nascent industry grows up these problems will dissipate. More demand will create better products at lower cost.

The best fact of this article: current flash sells for around $3/GB…a 50% decline from last quarter of last year.

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