Solid state storage – death to the hard drive?

I was looking at a cool laptop site made by a guy who’s well known in in Internet space that I first began reading back ‘in the day.’ In any event, his laptop site featured a post on backup storage solutions. Most interesting of all is a solid state 32GB drive. That’s solid state as in no moving parts that can break. On top of that, the Sandisk SSD UATA 5000 features a “sustained read rate of 62MBps, 100x faster than most hard disks.” No moving parts to effect reliability and no moving parts to…move, making the drive a hell of a lot faster. At $600 these are far from a viable mainstream solution for backups but with expected price deflation and storage size inflation it won’t be too long until these devices are viable and powering everything from mobile devices like the Apple iPhone to some laptops to fast backup devices.