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I don't know about this, guys. Flash memory is really slow compared to today's 7200 rpm high-cache hard disk drives. And to the guy who blamed flash memory's slowness on USB is mistaken on two counts. For one, high-speed USB is about 480 megabits per second, not "21 or 20", as post #11 states. Secondly, USB flash drives are not the only form of slow flash memory. Flash memory that's built into cameras is slow. Flash memory cards are slow (even the "ultra speed" ones are slow compared to a hard disk drive). Flash memory that's built into MP3 players whether it be the new iPod nano, the iPod Shuffle, or some non-apple flash-based player, is quite slow compared to fast hard disk drives. By the way, this technology already exists. I found a 2.5" equivalent form factor flash-based IDE hard "disk" drive at www.cdw.com a few months ago which was for sale to be used as a boot disk in industrial computers which are in dusty and high-vibration envirionments and benefit from a solid-state medium. The drives were really low capacity (about 512MB tops, I think) and were rated as being really slow. Something like 8 megabytes per second. I can't find them again or I'd post a link.