I think most people who follow technology have operated under the assumption that solid-state flash drives (SSD) will eventually replace hard drives (HDD). SSDs have many benefits over HDDs. They’re more energy efficient, they tend to be faster, and there are no moving parts, so they’re much more forgiving of drops and kinetic energy in general. I’ve been waiting for years for flash drives to increase their capacities and drop in price so I could finally get a nice SSD-based 60GB-120GB mp3 player.

I have a 120GB Zune right now, using 87 GB of it, yet I’m willing to downgrade to 60 GB to get a flash-based player. I’ll be honest, I want to change for many reasons not related to SSD vs HDD–the Zune doesn’t play nice with other OSs, it’s a pain to update, and I hate the interface including the fact that I have to browse by id3 tag. Since I will be changing mp3 players soon, and because flash drives are at the point they should be showing up in larger capacity mp3 players, I really want my next player to have an SSD.

There actually is a 64 GB flash-based player in the US. It’s an iPod. What the fuck?