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I don't disagree, but to play the devil's advocate..

How soon until Dell, HPs (etc) ship more desktops with SSDs than with mechanical drives? The average consumer doesn't understand the difference and doesn't want to pay extra (even though it's probably the best performance/$ upgrade possible).

On the flip side, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw significant adoption for servers that can live with the space limit (or that can design around it). Server-based applications are often I/O bound, established solutions are expensive, and the people responsible know and care.



they'll use Intel Smart Response or something similar and use a smallish 20-40GB SSD (possibly welded to the mobo) together with a big HDD.




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