Actually the problem with longlife in flash isn't that big anymore. The vendors have clever algorithms that balance the usage of each block. Some vendors build 1GB DRAM in their drives and so on. And actually the SSD doesn't break. Just the capacity will shrink. And since flash disks consist of multiple chips you can have more than one pipe where data can come. http://www.fusionio.com/index.html I so hope we will get multiple pipes for future flash drives. Of course this needs new cables and specs and stuff.