Solid State Drives (SSDs) are cool, but still an early adopter technology. While you'd love to see a MacBook or MacBook Pro arrive with a 200GB SSD for only pennies more than a conventional hard drive, this may be a ways off.

Still, there's some progress to be had.

According to Macworld, San Jose-based memory device developer will soon begin commercial sales of a 256GB SSD for notebooks.

The drive, which is the same size as a 12.5mm-thick 2.5" notebook drive, is slimmer than many other 256GB SSDs on the market and features a SATA-I interface. Super Talent has stated that the drive boasts a 0.1 millisecond access time with maximum sequential read speeds of 65 Megabytes per second and a write speed of 50Mbps.

Super Talent, which typically only supplies PC makers, is presently shipping samples of the drive to customers and plans to begin volume shipments in late April. The drive will retail for US$5,950.

It's worth noting that the MacBook Air uses a 5mm high 1.8" HDD or SDD, so this puppy won't fit in it. Bummer.

It's not really designed for consumer use, but if anyone has thoughts on paying almost six grand for their next 256GB SSD notebook drive, let us know in the comments or forums.