I know the Windows registry gets written to dozens of times per second -
almost everything the system encounters by the millisecond seems to be
written somewhere in there, and it can be large and placed anywhere. Not
sure about the little CE editions, but they are limited in other ways... 

However, they might make good backup devices, rather than buying
dedicated hard drives just to shadow.

-Skip

> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:28 -0400, William Bulley wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     

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