[rescue] $35 50gig drives

[Jeffrey Nonken]

At 04:55 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote:
> > Indeed. Flash has a limited number of writes
>
>For the flash I've used, technically it is a limited number of erases,
>not writes.

This is true, I stand corrected.

Since writing new data requires erasing the old data, unless I'm missing 
something, I believe it amounts to the same thing. A limited lifetime when 
used as a read-write medium.