Was poking around the tech-news pages yesterday and found this <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/dataslide-hrd-ssd-hdd,8115.html" target="_blank">article</a> .

It goes on to say that these &quot;Hard Rectangular Drives&quot; can hit 160,000 random IOPS, 500MB/sec transfer speeds, and only uses 4w of power.

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Unfortunately there is no stated (or even rumored) release date for them. I guess my greatest hope is that once available, the price of a few SSDs (or &quot;Enterprise Flash Disks&quot; if you're EMC) will fall into the moderately reasonable range.