As there are no moving parts within the solid state drives, like the memory cards we use in digital cameras, reliability should be greatly improved. But this comes at a cost, a great cost.

The early models are only 32Gb or 64Gb compared to the 500Gb or larger drives that are currently available in the traditional style, but these bad boys can cost more that your whole pc or laptop.

I don’t think many of us will move to this technology for a few years as the first generation drives are:

• Expensive
• Small storage capacity compared to traditional hard disks
• Not many companies manufacturing so limited in choice
• Did I mention expensive?

Once the engineers overcome the lack of capacity and exceed 100Gb or more then the only problem for the consumer is the cost. Like all tech items, give it a couple of years and we’ll be waving a distant farewell to old trusty.

Sorry old trusty, you too will be another door stop to add to my forever expanding collection of high tech gadgets.