But isnt the HDD on this unit solid state ?

What makes you think that the Toshiba player uses solid state storage ?

All it says is that it uses a 5Gb type II PC card HDD.

The solid state card you referred to doesn't even come in a 5Gb size:

http://www.sandisk.com/oem/pccard-specs.htm
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