Flash Memory

[vlad321]

So I've been monitoring this flash thing for a tiny while now, they've also announced USB3.0 already with 4.8 gig per second transfer speed, backward compatible with older jacks, should be hitting in 2010:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/usb-3-0-in-the-flesh/

 

The other part of Flash memory I was reading about is the size. Curently the 64 gig flash drives are worth thousands, but they do exist. How soon will it be until flash drives replace out good old slow HDDs? I also predict that not too far off after that we're gonna see games on flash drives instead of CDs, or BluRay, given the ridiculously fast data transfer. Apparently you can boot up Vista Enterprise in 35 seconds off of one of those. Absolutely sick. I predict the end of disk based distribution within several years.