The first generation of solid-state drives (SSD) introduced in PCs last year failed to live up to the hype.
Though praised for using less power and generating less heat than conventional hard disk drives, SSDs weren't as fast as promised. Their capacity and longevity, especially with low-end models found in netbooks, left a lot to be desired.
Much of that was because of the poor quality of the SSDs themselves. But another problem was that neither the hardware nor the software had caught up to SSDs.
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