My perception of hard drives is that they are slow, bulky, power hungry, put out too much heat, noisy, unreliable and prone to catastrophic failure instead of graceful degradation. Given a choice I'd rather not store my precious data on such a device.

I long for the day when an evil genius invents a solid state device the size of a matchbox that stores several TB's uses the same power as ram and will put those ancient spinning things to shame when it comes to reliability.

Anybody know of any solid state devices that are showing promise at the developmental stage?

Here's someone that agrees with me