Storage company Seagate plans to offer solid state flash drives next year in a variety of applications. These are not the flash-enhanced SSD+HDD hybrids that are already available, they are talking about full-on Flash SSD storage. No specifics on storage sizes are available at this time.

I believe that SSD storage will be a wondeful enhancement to aftermarket disk capture solutions like the Focus Firestore…they are lighter, more rugged, silent, and consume less power. Since they have no moving parts, you now can have many of the advantages of P2 storage in a commodity camera. Think HV20 + SSD Firestore = Cheap Crash Cam. How far we have come since the early hard disk storage! Unfortunately, all those advantages will most likely come at a premium price point. Here’s to hoping there won’t be a flash shortage and prices remain reasonable.