And in a 2.5" form factor too? Impressive.

The rate of capacity increase on SSDs is crazy, only seems like a few years ago that a 1 gb usb drive was considered really impressive, never mind 1 tb.

There is the crippling expense to consider, but I remember looking up the price of a 4 gig drive about 5-6 years ago, and it was in the 4-figure range in dollars, so fingers crossed for a similar price adjustment on the new high-end of SSD tech.

JBOD of 1024 of these suckers wouldn't take up that much room either...

We're almost to the single-rack petabyte.

Crap I'm old. I still remember the first single-rack gigabyte JBOD we put together.

And how much money would you have to borrow a year such that this is interest at 5%?

My suspicion is that they don't cost much more in the long run.

I want someone to come up with a way to RAID USB flash drives through hardware or software for Windows machines, with reasonably fast (12MB/s write, 30MB/s read) 16GB sticks available at £16 delivered from play.com, you could potentially create a reasonably high capacity very fast & silent 'drive' for £1 per GB + needed hardware.

I know you can software RAID USB flash drives on linux but that's not so useful to all the Windows users out there.

I thought BitMicro had 1.6Tb out last year

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/05/bitmicro-keeps-it-real-unveils-1-6tb-ultra320-scsi-ssd/