The Chromebook has 16GB of slow flash storage. It can do that because it has a very lightweight OS, and does little with the local storage. My Dell Vostro lapto

The Chromebook has 16GB of slow flash storage. It can do that because it has a very lightweight OS, and does little with the local storage. My Dell Vostro laptop, in comparison, has a magnetic drive coupled with a 32GB mSATA high-performance flash cache. So my normal workstation laptop has a simple flash cache double the entire size of the main storage in the Chromebook. SSDs remain expensive. They are a premium because they simply aren't worth it to many users. I'd love to have boundless, super-performance SSDs in every device but that isn't reasonable.