> I think reading about solid-state-drives in the 90s and not getting them until... well the last 2 years Lower your expectations, or look in different places

> I think reading about solid-state-drives in the 90s and not getting them until... well the last 2 years Lower your expectations, or look in different places. I've had SSDs for at least six years. My first ones were USB flash drives (often kickstarted from floppy, many mobos did not boot usb), industrial flash modules (little stubby thing that plugs right into the IDE socket) and CF-IDE adapters. Even six years ago the industrial drives were relatively easy to get - they just were just not something you could find at consumer tech shops.