Solid State Drives – SSD – provide several benefits to platter based hard drives including better shock resistance, faster access times and silence. They are still pretty expensive especially when it comes to Solid State Drives with larger capacities or above average performance. This is most likely going to change in the future according to an article published at DigiTimes which expects Windows 7 to increase SSD demand because of the optimized SSD support that was build into Windows 7.
Microsoft let the news slip at the WinHEC conference back in 2008 where they mentioned that Windows 7 would work better with Solid State Drives than previous Microsoft operating systems. First benchmarks that compared the SSD performance of the Windows 7 Beta to Windows Vista SP1 confirmed an increase, albeit not as huge as expected. This has fueled expectations of NAND flash chip manufacturers who expect an increase in demands once the operating system will be released.
