You know, I remember seeing an anandtech review of an add in card that took old standard SDRAM and made it into a hard drive. I also remember that installing windows on to that made relatively little difference in boot times.


I've been wondering about this ever since USB flash drives started showing up. If you can make a 2gig flash drive, then how hard could it be to make a 100 gig one and call it a hard drive?
Much harder then you might realized. NAND/NOR flash can only be written to so many times before it fails. For things like transfering files and the like, where writes are relatively few and far between, that's no big deal. For something like a windows page file....well, it's a problem.