The technology that lets you carry around USB flash drives in your pocket could soon be replacing the regular hard drives you have in your computer. Samsung has developed a 32-GB SSD, the technical name for a flash drive, and installed it in a laptop to demonstrate how it could be used for PC storage. A flash drive is faster than a standard disk drive, plus it has no moving parts, which lessens the chance of data loss if your laptop is bumped or dropped. The price, however, makes the technology prohibitively expensive, at least for now. A 32-GB flash drive would cost about $960, which is significantly more than the $590 750-GB disk drives released today. However, as the technology advances and the prices go down, look for flash drives to slowly start replacing disk drives in high-end computers in the near future. — Adam Frucci