It had to happen sooner or later.

With the increasing capacity of NAND flash chips combined with decreasing prices, it was only a matter of time before solid state "hard drives" made an appearance.

Adtron has announced three different 2.5" flash drives:

• 32GB 2.5"
• 96GB 2.5"
• 160GB 2.5"

All the drives share the following specifications:

• 2.5" form factor
• SATA interface
• "Adtron ArrayPro^TM performance engine"
• "Adtron EraSure^TM Data Security"
• Up to 65MB/sec transfer rate for reading
• Up to 55MB/sec transfer rate for writing
• 250,000 MTBF
• hot swap capable
• 3 year warranty

As the drives are pure solid state devices, they are far less susceptible to vibration than magnetic rotating media; and the drives are absolutely quiet. They also consume less power, and milisecond seek rates and rotational latency go the way of the Dodo.