Ars is talking about a flash hard drive from Samsung.1 At 16Gb max, it is, by today's standards, too small for most desktop use. We are all spoiled by the massive 40Gb, 80Gb, and bigger hard drives available now, and most people would have trouble getting accustomed to having "only" 16Gb of space now. After all, my old desktop from college even had something like 13Gb. Still, with 16Gb available now (or rather, in August or so), it is only a matter of time before these drives start reaching the sizes we are accustomed to. In many modern systems, the disk i/o is a significant choke point, so a 150 percent performance increase here will certainly be noticeable, and few people (who don't download lots of movies) will notice if the high end of these drives starts to compete (size wise) with the low end current drive, so long as the price wise is competitive with other drives (not necessarily of the same size).
