I've seen the future, and it's solid

Solid State, that is. Wired gives us a blurb about a new a 100 GB solid state disk drive recently released by a company called Buffalo. No moving parts for much greater durability and reliability, like one hundred of those little 1GB USB thumb drives all packed into a box the size of a deck of cards. Of course, for $950, you could probably buy a hundred thumb drives, but that, as Al Sharpton would say, is only a temporary situation; prices will fall, and when they do, these puppies will replace the crummy laptop drives that have been giving me so much grief lately. Not to mention replacing the SATA drive in our home computer, which sounds vaguely like a little sewing machine when accessed. Ah, to have the blessed silence of electrons doing their thing, no spinning platters required.