In the news recently:

   http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12453.html   [32GB Seagate]

and

   http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12556.html   [64GB Samsung]

are new solid state devices (disk drives?) of enormous capacity.

If these were actually used in any modern system (Linux, Windows CE,
PalmOS, etc.) what would be the life expectancy of the device?  The
operating system can not help but hit the disk many (hundreds?) times
per second, but the technology used in flash memory is limited to a
relatively small number of write or format cycles.  How would these
drives compare?  Would they do as well?  Better?  Would RAM memory
be used for normal operation while writes to disk be reserved for a
few, infrequent updates to critical state information?

Regards,

web...

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William Bulley                     Email: web@umich.edu

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