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Maybe soon we will get rid of normal HDDs altogether.

Less voltage used, faster read and write times and no moving parts. Sign me uup.

Shiny.

Now I can take work home even easier .

Don't flash drives have a limited number of read/write operations? Wouldn't that make it prohibitive as a HDD replacement?

SCRawl wrote:Don't flash drives have a limited number of read/write operations? Wouldn't that make it prohibitive as a HDD replacement?

Yes, though better implementations spread out read/write operations across the chip and more expensive ones have longer lives.

Still a bit too expensive to me, but I'm looking forward to seeing prices come down and sizes go up.

phongn wrote:

SCRawl wrote:Don't flash drives have a limited number of read/write operations? Wouldn't that make it prohibitive as a HDD replacement?

Yes, though better implementations spread out read/write operations across the chip and more expensive ones have longer lives.

Somewhat off-topic, but are there any tools out there to determine how many writes a flash-drive has left before it croaks? Something like this could be nifty, but not knowing how much longer you've got until it finally dies due to write limitations would be problematic.