One of the great things being touted about solid state drives is their minimal power consumption which means longer run times for all devices using them - which I am assuming includes all new and future direct to disk recorders.

Anyways, I came across this interesting article actually testing the SSD power consumption and the results are not favorable!

Here is the link - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955.html

Solid State is great since there are no moving parts and your data is more secure from damage, but I am hoping they can somehow iron out the potential run time issues and put together a device that can run for hours on one light small battery.

Efficiency is bound to improve since this is a relatively new consumer sector.

In the mean time, how long before 64GB CF cards are common place? Flash SSDs are great an all but I much rather have a dozen 64GB UDMA cards and several UDMA/FW CF card readers to travel with - lighter, stronger, cheaper, less worrisome.

Just my 2 bits.

Justin.