Ted Marshall wrote: > The result is that the flash drive will burn out much faster than the > statistics quoted. How much faster, I am unable to compute. It may still > be adequate for your needs. I don't know. I was looking again at the specs for the OLPC machine at <http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml> and I see that this states explicitly "Drives: No rotating media". As far as I can see it has a 1GB flash drive. As I understand it, this machine - do any actually exist? - runs Linux. I wonder if this Linux is specially adapted in some way to use flash drives? I see the Asus Eee PC (perhaps a virtual machine?) also uses a flash drive according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Storage>. I'm still puzzled by the two entirely different takes on flash drives - on the one hand, developments like OLPC seem to take them for granted, while on the other people say they will have a short life.
