A report was recently released by analyst firm J. Gold Associates citing that despite initial higher cost, SSDs are a better long-term investment for notebook purchases.

The goal of the research conducted here was to deteremine if SSDs were a good economic choice in the enterprise environment, particularly considering if notebook life cycles were extended to 5 years from the current 3, a move that many IT shops are considering. In the end, it all comes down to this:

Deploying notebooks with SSDs instead of HDD will save a company $214 over a three year deployment lifecycle and $493 if the lifecycle is 5 years, for a 107% and 247% ROI respectively. Further, SSDs can lower the overall machine failure rates by one third.

And there you have it. SSDs have been dropping in price steadily for the past couple years and the higher capacity, higher performance models are now approaching mainstream affordability. This makes the SSD choice easier to swallow for large enterprise and should make PC manufacturers happy with higher margins.

Source:  [J. Gold Associates - PDF link] via [Geek.com]