Flash drives for notebooks

[unixronin]

CNet reports that Sandisk has announced a line of flash disks for laptops, to be available at present only to manufacturers, and apparently available only in 32GB capacity at this time.  They're pushing it as faster, more robust, and energy-saving -- Sandisk claims notebooks with the solid-state drive will have up to 10% longer battery life and boot Windows Vista almost twice as fast (35 seconds instead of 55).

The issue they don't mention is media life.  Flash memory has a finite lifetime in terms of write cycles.  I can only assume they're hoping that by the time you start hitting the write-cycle limit on the flash disk, you're ready for a new and bigger drive or a new laptop anyway.

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[novel-tharkun.livejournal.com]

Does Vista allow swap space, I'm sorry, virtual memory to be turned off? If not, good luck with overwrite protection.