The reason why I haven't bought one yet it was because the speed advantage was there but not anywhere near the "several hundred times faster" that now Intel is talking about. This is an incredible leap in productivity. I don't know what exactly Intel is doing to make this possible but clearly they are doing something different as they say they are using twice as much power for their IO when it happens but because it happens so much faster overall energy consumption actually is half of other SSDs. So clearly we are talking here about a paradigm shift in the main component of computers that has been holding back computers for decades.
The next time you do anything with your computer think the time you spend waiting after you click or do something or load a big file. Every day things. Not just loading the OS that you might do once a day or even once a week. Think of the many every day things that are delayed and instead you sit there watching the hour glass while you wait for the HDD to complete the operation. My time is worth huge money. And I mean big money. To replace that lifetime of waisted time and money with the cost of an SSD, I would easily do.
And you are right. SSDs were already faster than HDDs. But what Intel is claiming here is a gargantuan leap in performance. Several hundred times faster can not just be dismissed as merely "yes, it's faster". That kind of performance is a paradigm shift. It would have a huge impact, impact that we don't yet quite understand as we have not yet experienced anything like it. Think of all the items on your computer right now that do not happen instantaneously and think how your life will change if they did.
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