Hmmm. I could replace the disk drive I have now and it would be 1000 times faster, but it would cost $20,000. Ouch.
I do think non-volatile memory is the way of the future, but maybe not quite yet. The 80 gig model however might make an excellent swap/scratch drive for not too much money. If only I could get in in my eeepc. :)
Even a 10 Gig drive would be tremendously useful. At $30/Gig, this would mean that you could install your OS and one multiplayer game for $300. Lots of people would buy it just for that. Video editing would be another use.
I would assume that video editing is a mostly sequential workload and thus would do better on conventional drives. You can get 10 1TB drives for the price of one Fusion io card.
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