argh there was a guy who did some research on the mailing list about USB-SSD
drives a while ago, he found some reaaally good ones that had dual USB and
SATA interfaces, those he said were superb.
one of the main problems with USB flash drive firmware is they do cacheing of
the first few sectors because it's ASSUMED that you're gonna be doing a FAT
filesystem, i mean who would want to do something other than a FAT filesystem
on a removable USB stick, right? so you write to the beginning of the drive,
nooo problem... by the time you get to the end it's often dead within a few
writes.
... yah.... so anyway this guy did a really comprehensive review - i'll
remember his name soon, began with "g"... it was about 3 years ago on the
arm-netbook mailing list...
