Solid State Drives (SSD’s) are seeing their use increase considerably across IT systems around the world. Their near instantaneous ability to access data, silent running and size efficiency all add up and the result is that of a technology soon to surpass the traditional hard drive.

As mentioned, SSD’s are the new technology looking to take the place of a hard drive. SSD’s are available for purchase now, but the major thing that’s stopping their sale is the price. Consumer-grade SSDs are still roughly six to seven times more expensive per unit of storage than consumer-grade hard drives.

Apart from this and the fact that this price will drop over time as the technology is produced more. SSD’s seem like they will take over the hard drive, becoming the main way we all store our data.

Many laptops already make use of SSD storage as standard. Intels range of ultrabook subnotebooks use SSD technology as part of the framework for a super sleek, yet highly functional portable computer.