Solid state drives (SSD) are fantastic. They are power-sippers as compared to a spinning platter, more resistant to shock, and other elemental damage. Even if you just count the performance increases, it comes as no surprise that Apple has shifted most of its desktop and portable line to SSD storage. Tragically, the price per gigabyte is dramatically higher than that of platter-based hard drives, so the capacities as-shipped tend to be a bit lower. Compounding the problem, Apple is using a handful of custom connectors on its MacBook Air line, preventing a simple drop-in of a drive available an
