Like carbon nanotube drives or flash drives? If it's the former I didn't know that they've come out yet and if it's the latter then you should know flash memory has a limited number of writes before it stops working.

Solid State Hard Drives. Calling one a flash drive is like calling a tricycle a Harley Davidson

All SSD's have a failure date depeding on the amount written to it (and deleted more importantly) The intel is expected to last around 5 years. It's at least covered for the first 3 years.  I'm aware of the limited writes and slowing of the drive over time and the reasons for this (I was looking at the G2 because it supports TRIM and Intel's G2 drives don't "age" like other drives)

There's also an issue with write amplification which Intel's will succumb to (all drives do. Just some do it far slower then others)

I'm aware of steps to help reduce the number of writes (use a portion of system memory for FF Cache and storing larger files like movies and things to a seperate drive (External USB in my case)

One of the things i was concerned with was the interface speed for my sata hard drive on my laptop. I can't find anywhere that says if it's top speed is 1.5GB/s or 3.0GB/s. The intel will fly either way but some of the newer SSDs just coming out max out at the 3.0GB/s because thats the top speed for the interface until they start shipping with 6.0GB/s. I'd feel cheated buying a new SSD at an outrageous price and only be able to use half of it's ability

SSD's are still expensive as [ ] so I don't dabble in them

Tell me about the price I really wanted a SandForce controlled SSD but the first ones i've seen on the market are for $900 for 200GB X(

I got my Intel 80GB for $219 and it's just the bare drive no extras :-/ Newegg rocks as always. It's currently out for delivery the second day after ordering

Now i just need to get a valid copy of Windows 7.... I mean buy... of course....