Check out this high-end solid state drive (SSD) named the Fusion ioDrive which is now bootable. Previous models of this drive were not bootable due to the lack of a driver.
This problem has now been addressed and some firmware allows your computer to think that the SSD is an actual hard drive. The SSD based drive uses a PCI-e slot which sits on your motherboard.
The Fusion ioDrive isn’t cheap though as we expected. It costs $2400 for an 80GB model. The upside is that there are no moving parts which helps makes things more reliable.
Expect to see this arrive Q4 this year.
But...
Hard drives will always be cheaper than SSDs, it is just very cheap to produce a large storage capability magnetic platter, but SSDs cost just scales up the bigger you go, extra storage chips, extra power and heat to deal with and lack of space to fit it all in, of course the technology is always improving and as manufacturing steps up the price will drop, but this will mostly occur at the bottom end of the market (sub 200GB), it will be a long, long time before a 1TB SSD is cheaper than a 1TB hard-disk.
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