http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140591-c,thinandlightnotebooks/ 
article.html

[QUOTE]

The Z-P140 PATA solid-state storage drives (SSDs) will be provided as  
an optional module to OEMs.

The tiny SSD chip, which weighs only 0.6 grams, will be available in  
capacities of 2G bytes and 4G bytes. The on-board storage capacity  
will be expandable up to 16G bytes with four SSDs connected to a  
standard PATA (parallel advanced technology attachment) interface

The Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD offers read speeds of 40 Megabytes-per- 
second (MB/s) and write speeds of 30 MB/s. Critical to mobile  
applications, its active power usage is 300mW (milliwatts), and only  
1.1mW in sleep mode, which helps to extend a device's battery life.

With a 2.5 million hours mean-time between failures (MTBF) rate, this  
PATA-based chip scale package delivers reliable solid-state performance

[UNQUOTE]

1) Is Intel saying that the chip will have 2.5Mhours MTBF while  
running at full speed, reading and writing or are they throwing a  
bunch of "sleep" time into the mix.  What are the failure mechanisms  
for flash *

2) Why would Intel choose a PATA interface over a SATA interface *

Cedric
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