Disruptive technology; it's a term thrown around these days by industry marketing types and quite frankly it's just plain getting worn out as of late. In the mid 90s, a Harvard Business School Professor coined this phrase to describe a product innovation that breaks current convention and exceeds market expectations so vastly that market leaders might not see it coming and perhaps even the market itself doesn't know how to react. Since the term was brought forth, there were many innovations over the years that overzealous marketing types have hailed as "disruptive technologies," though obviously, in reality, this level of innovation is on a different scale all together. However, a truly disruptive technology is unequivocally and unmistakably a game-changer.Let's take NAND Flash memory for example. A few years ago, the camera market was turned on its ear by the new storage technology and it has changed the landscape forever with digital cameras displacing film cameras almost completely now. Then USB Flash sticks came along and of course the floppy drive then became extinct. Disruptive enough for you? In addition, it has become clear that there is yet another market the NAND Flash chip has set its disruptive sights on--secondary computer storage. There is little question at this point, that SSD (Solid State Drive) technology will eventually supplant traditional rotational media, with perhaps the exception of large bulk storage arrays, at least for the time being. Though it is debatable when the transition will reach critical mass beyond a few drives shipped in notebooks, some higher-end desktop configurations and the DIY niche'.However, is even the SATA SSD as we know it today, eventually going to end up on a proverbial endangered species list? We'll leave you pondering that question as we take a competitive look at two SSD solutions that peg the performance scales with very different approaches to the technology.