The Future Memory

The traditional means of storing files is the hard drive either external or the more commonly internal. You might not be aware that technology in hard drives has advanced over time in terms of faster read and write speeds, cooler operating and they have become smaller in size. However, i wish to speculate that the days of the volatile hard drive are limited, my reasoning for this is that netbooks and smaller laptops are becoming very popular and are more appealing to the consumer market if they are without the bulky hard drive. This leads me to believe solid state drives may be more widely introduced and used in larger capacities than 4 or 128 gigabytes. The advantages of the solid state drive (ssd) is that they are far smaller, have greater read/write speeds and can fit in a pci slot, making it possible for existing pc owners to switch to an ssd. Unfortunately these piece of kit can be very expensive and often double the price of the hard drive equivalent. So, do you go for size or cost? Giving my honest opinion, i think you are best buying a laptop stocked with an ssd nd then purchasing an external hard drive such as a "Western Digital MyBook" or if you cannot fork out the money just buy a high capacity flash drive like a corsair as they have some of the best read and write speeds money can buy.
But is this the end of the race to the top of the memory market? I think not as the release of the new SD card known as the SDXC on August 4th of this year has proved to be a big contender. The toshiba cards currently range from 8 to 64 gigabytes (with a read/write speed of 300 MBps) in memory but have the technology to go up to 2 terabytes. Thus allowing the new generation of portable memory, a 2 terabyte drive making hard drive look ancient in comparison, undoubtedly however, these drives will be expensive but hopefully worth the price. I shall be waiting in anticipation for the 2 terabyte card and being able to store over 200 hours of HD video, will you?