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- Jan 7, 2003
Peaceful Coexistence misses the mark just slightly I think. The problem that I see is this...Flash memory wears out. Yes, it's umpteen thousands of write cycles and rust drives break down as well. But rust drives aren't INHERENTLY going to wear out. Some do last for years on end. Even under heavy use. I don't think that we will see a one or the other situation. I think that we will start seeing the rise of one and the other systems. The swap file will end up being on the "slow" rust drive...because it will be the killer of flash drives. Mass media files will also reside on rust...size matters. The OS and games will end up on speedy flash drives. Typically they will be written to once and then read from repeatedly...just what flash is good at. Now this all depends on whether or not the manufacturers can solve that little wearing out thing. Wear leveling only goes so far. Granted, for the typical user, the wear rates are probably not going to kill the drive for long periods of time....exception being the swap file. Who knows, with the rapid falling of RAM prices, maybe this will be the end of the swap file.