Computerworld has posted a Q&A with the Fujitsu’s Vice President of Business Development on Solid State Disks (SSD). Fujitsu, one of the few hard disk makers hasn’t launched a SSD drive yet and according to the VP that’s because SSD drives aren’t really worth their money.

In the article he mentions that with a SSD drive his Windows Vista booted up in 20 seconds, rather than the 28 seconds he was used to, also on a laptop in their tests the SSD drive only saved 5% of power. Another issue, according to him, is the reliability as the flash memory used in the SSD drives wears out after certain reading and writing cycles.

Still he does think SSD’s will become big over time as their are usage scenario's for them, but not in the coming years and expects that hard disk drives will still account for 90% of the shipments, Fujitsu however will not release a SSD drive the coming two years.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

So there doesn't seem to be any improvement I can see with a solid state drive. So there's a lot of talk about the performance advantages and power savings that don't translate into real-world experience [for] notebook users and then if you look at sequential and random writes where hard disk drives win today. Then, you can then go to the next step -- reliability -- and question that.

Interested in what else he has said about SSD? Head over to Computerworld.