QUOTE(max @ Aug 1 2006, 11:48 PM) [snapback]57255[/snapback]
yeah, only thing is that they start failing after like 100,000 cycles

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I've read the same too, but i wonder whether its still relevant now a days.
What he means here is that each sector (if u can call it such) on a flash card is only good upto 100,000 writes. So imagine something like a
windows paging file that would be constantly be changing meaning that storage life of such a device would be considerably shorter in comparison to say a regular HD.