2008, The Year of Solid State Storage

An anonymous reader writes "At CES, SSD drives were a plenty on the show floor. "Some companies said we could see 250GB SSD units by the end of this year, while others predicted it could take up to a couple of years for them to become mainstream. None of the companies promised mainstream adoption, but they promised a bright future and we are inclined to believe them. High capacity drives are going to be expensive due to their very nature of early technology and gradual adoption rate."

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What about limited write cycles?

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And, of course, any technology with no moving parts is preferable-- mechanical parts have an annoying tendency to freeze up with vacuum thermal cycling.

How are the SSD makers getting around the limited write cycles of flash drives? Flash, even high endurance can actually wear out faster than HDDs with all of Windows' endless writing to the page file. A fluid bearing HDD can last a long time theoretically. One of the problems with those few people who have managed to get Windows (XP, not PE) to boot from a flash drive is that Windows will burn out a flash drive pretty quick with its endless page writes. Yes, you could turn off the page file, but that isn't how XP is supposed to work. Then again, neither is BSOD.

I understand that Linux pages too, but I'd imagine the average Linux nerd would implement a workaround.