Sandisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

Sandisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable.

Seems to me that reliability would still be a problem. After a few thousand writes, Flash memory is supposed to degrade and eventually result in dead bits in the Flash. It seems to me that if you used this as your main storage, it would eventually start having pieces of the unit fail, just from being pounded. A swap file, for example, seems like it would be the first point of failure on such a device.

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