600US$ extra? Damn. .... .... .... I still want one :-) "Although flash memory can be known to eventually "wear out" due to writing to the same area repeatedly, modern flash memory controllers have automatic "wear-leveling" to ensure longevity of the device by making sure that sectors are being written to evenly and bad sectors are dynamically remapped to good ones. According to SanDisk, the SSD UATA 5000 is rated at "two million hours mean time between failure (MTBF)."
What does this mean to the average notebook user? SanDisk's drive boasts considerably faster data access, slightly longer battery life, and higher reliability. Unfortunately, the cost for such a drive is somewhat prohibitive at $600. It would seem that SanDisk's target market is currently the enterprise user, but naturally as flash memory prices continue to come down and more flash manufacturers get into the hard drive business, we should expect to see them in consumer-grade laptops in the proverbial three to five years." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223922 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
