Seriously cool technology

[SteveOBHave]

http://www.adtron.com/products/A25fb-SerialATAFlashDisk.html

...if you're willing to part with $3000 US with a 65MB/sec sustained read rate and a 55MB/sec sustained write speed which is fairly good in the grand scale of things. It seems that the days of HD platters and moving parts are limited... thankfully

 

[SteveOBHave]

I heard that these Flash Hard drives don't last as long as normal HDDs cos you can only write to them a certain amount of times?

Why would that be? Doesn't make sense to me. It's no different to a USB Flash drive and that has no limit on writes.

 

[SteveOBHave]

There is a limit, even on usb flash drives... I will run off and see if I can find out some information

How interesting - learn something new every day:

Flash memory has a write endurance limit. This limit is the number of times the flash memory cell can be written until it can not be restored to its initial condition. The industry refers to this as the erase cycles. The endurance is rated between 10,000 and 100,000 erase cycles for different types flash memories.

Source: http://www.imation.com/didyouknow/technology_info/USB_Flash_Drives_Take_it_with.html