I don't think it's all that many years away. Prices are coming down like crazy, and capacity and speed and reliability are way up every year.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's less than five years, probably more in the 2011 area, where we start seeing SSDs as a real alternative for small and medium business servers. Might even be next year.
I've been watching flash/SSD technology since the 90s, and it's accelerating faster than HDD technology, and has been for a while. Not too much more catching up to do.
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