Solid State Drives getting cheap is a good thing

This article over at Engadget talks about how the prices of SSDs are going to continue dropping by quite a bit (no real surprise), but that they are still going to be quite a lot more than HDDs. According to Samsung, who provided the information, solid state drives are currently about five times the cost of mechanical drives. By the year 2010, they expect this to fall to just three times the cost. While this would still translate to a significant premium, when you consider what SSDs offer, it seems like it might be worth the cost. The part that I found to be interesting is that they are using the cost per GB of 1.8 inch hard drives for comparison. This is all well and good given that solid state drives are small, but if what you want is raw storage, 3.5 inch dries are way ahead in terms of cost. You can find these drives for as low as 20 cents a GB right now, which is about seven times cheaper than their little brothers. So when you consider that people are willing to pay seven times the amount just for a smaller form factor, shelling out a bit more money for the benefits of solid state doesn't seem like much of a stretch.