Some file systems may also allow external journals on a separate device, such as a solid-state disk or battery-backed non-volatile RAM.

The increasing relative cost of disk seeks also makes the high access speeds provided by solid-state disks more attractive for some applications.

The i-RAM is a solid-state disk which has four DIMM slots to allow regular PC RAM to be used like a disk.

Conner Peripherals, a leading disk drive maker based in San Jose, Calif., said last week that it would team up with Intel to develop such so-called solid-state disks.

Faster and dramatically more power-efficient than rotating magnetic media, solid-state disks (SSDs) are one of the longest-awaited and most eagerly anticipated technologies in the past two decades of computing.

Full flash technology integration: both PCIe and solid-state disk (SSD).

It can also flirt with the latest in storage, the solid-state disk (SSD).

The storage will be all solid-state disk with 128GB the only size option revealed so far.

Before the widespread use of netbooks and other machines with small, often solid-state, disks, it was worth using the extra space.

Incidentally, solid-state disks (SSD) may not yet be a good idea, mostly due to the lack of benefits for the HTPC.