SSD Drives can now be purchased by all !

It's very good to see the SSD drive prices going down that fast !

For instance - the OCZ Agility 3 240GB was around $500 1 year ago. Now, the price for the same drive is down to $200, less than half!

Seeing the prices in the chart of the source drive below, currently we are at an average $1 per GB level with Crusial m4 256GB to offer the best $/GB rate of 0,82.

That is very good news for consumers, as an SSD drive will vastly improve the performance of any computing system at the expense of some storage space (as SSDs can't be as big as normal disk drives at the moment).

Apart from performance boost, SSDs consume less energy than normal drives and also are shock-proof. Damage to drive - consequently to the valuable data it was holding - because of drops or sudden vibrations, is the biggest issue of mechanical drives. Lot's of people lost their data because of a laptop drop accident. Definitely, the value of data is much higher than the value of the laptop. In the SSD case - the only thing that can affect your data is the SSD circuit/memory malfunction.

Source:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/23149