Ok, maybe I’m a little too excited about the next generation of storage, but CES 2009 has revealed a SanDisk Solid State Drive that promises a reasonable leap in laptop technology:

The SanDisk G3 SSDs are more than five times faster than the fastest 7,200 RPM HDDs and more than twice as fast as SSDs shipping in 2008, clocking in at 40,000 RPM and anticipated sequential performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write.
The G3 SSDs provide a Longterm Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage.

Throw one of these in a dying laptop and watch the amazing benefits. Awesome for energy consumption as well as speed. On the other hand, these of course represent a new level of threat as dumping and running with massive amounts of data will be so much easier…