norway wrote:These drives last forever unlike the standard HDD, which need to be replaced almost every 5 yrs.
These drives will certainly not last forever, 2 decades tops. What you have is a glorified piece of RAM, which can still be physically broken like a HD. Yes, you are eliminating the moving parts, which lowers your risk of failure but your drive will not survive a fire, a car wreck, or a rough baggage handler at the airport any better than a traditional hard drive will.
Additionally (and this certainly isn't something I'd even consider when buying) traditional hard drives are far more difficult to erase. The processes of zeroing data on platters takes a few hours on a HD of any size, where as one second of improperly places power to a solid state drive, and your data is gone.
norway wrote:My laptop will be lighter, more energy efficient, and operate faster once I put it in.
Most laptop drives are 10 - 12 ounces. What does this thing weigh? negative 20 lbs? I'm not sure lighter is a feature when the alternative is already light. I also agree with agent ogden on the speed issues, your HD is not your bottle neck. I think the only benefit of such a drive is the energy savings, which really boils down to longer battery life in laptops.
Once the world understands that hard drives, flash drives, CDs, DVDs (and virtually all media in existence) are just "temporary" storage devices, we will be better off.
