Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Dec 2008 21:29 UTC
While solid state drives are very well suited for netbooks from a power efficiency viewpoint, they pose problems when it comes to capacity (and performance, but that's another matter). In order to combat this issue, MSI has launched a new netbook with a hybrid approach to storage: it has a solid state drive for the operating system and applications, and a conventional hard drive for storage.
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Except price. "
Sure but
1) note the size of the SSD shipped with the netbook: 16GB.
And I would say that this is enough, as you have the HDD for all the multimedia files.
2) One of the reason of the price of fast SSD is that the controler must be complex as it's 'hiding' the Flash behind a 'disk-like' behaviour.
A less transparent interface would probably have better random write performance with a simpler (cheaper) Flash controler, though I don't expect that this'll happen (for the same reason that we're stuck with x86 and Windows instead of Alpha and BeOS: compatibility trump technical performance).