[citation][nom]skine[/nom]Forgive my ignorance, but do they make 3.5" SSDs? If not, what are the restrictions on SSDs which make 2.5" drives (and PCIe) more desirable other than the proliferation of notebooks/netbooks? On a less serious note, did the author have to write "A-DATA Technology revealed it all today at CeBIT 2009, whipping out its little 2.5-inch wonder and dazzling onlookers[...]" ?[/citation]
I am looking at it from the other side: Why not make 1.8" (pocket size) the 1 and only standard?
Had CD's been smaller, and been the main standard, (i.e. Sony MiniDisk) we would all be better off with smaller CD players, and eventually smaller DVD players, and all the way into bluray disks. Instead, because people didn't have any forsight in the 80's, instead of getting good quality on a large medium (Laser Disk) we got a medeocre quality on disks that are not big enough for home use, and too big for mobile use.
SSDs will keep having higher capacity, and die shrinks (more data density). So why not go with the 1.8" mobile standard, instead of the oversized 2.5", which are just too power hungry.
I mean, if they want to go big, so that we can share in larger capacity SSDs, why not just have a 5.25" SSD for home users?
I do belive that the 2.5" standard does offer the best compramise for now, and there are enclosures that allow for RAID arrays to be built inside 5.25" bays.