It has been approximately three years since flash-memory based storage drives became accessible to the normal citizen. I remember that in the netbooks debut, many were running Linux distributions from small SSDs, typically in the 16GB range. One could mention here the ASUS Eee PC 701, the pioneer of all netbooks. Then, we have seen these more expensive models being equipped of SSDs in the 40GB range, available with either Linux or Windows XP. Later came the netbooks with mechanical hard drives in the 80 or 160GB format which, looking at today's offerings, have dominated the market. I still think however that the first netbooks equipped of small SSDs have made a step forward the adoption of flash-based storage in the market. It is due to them if today the term SSD is known by almost all people which computers are in their field of interest. I although would not call this an adoption yet since only a portion of the enthusiasts, being a very tiny portion of people in general, now possess an SSD.



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