I guess i am missing something since i cant find any less after rebate on google for this 64gb drive. Any examples?

Very tempting... IMO OCZ is the first company out of the gate with a nice jump in 'bang for your buck' for these normally too expensive drives. Presumably more will follow suit soon.

OOS

hawaiian2002 said:Looks like you may need a separate 2.5" to 3.5" adapter bracket for a desktop. Yeah, this is becoming very tempting. I've seen one on eBay for about $8 shipped.

Or you can make your own if you have paper clips and rubber bands... a similar mounting as the antec p150...

guardian44 said:It'd be interesting to know how this is mapped.

IOW, if one included memory chip goes bad do you lose the entire drive, or do you just lose some capacity.

Also it'd be nice to know the length of the warranty. I mean, RAM sometimes is warrantied for life. Wonder if this is, as well. If so, my first comment re mapping doesn't matter.

You don't need to know anything about how it's mapped. All modern flash memory includes a controller - that controller handles what's called 'wear leveling'. Wear leveling ensures that each part of the flash drive receives approximately the same number of writes...thus hugely extending the life of the drive. In addition, there is a fair number of extra sectors that the controller can map to when it finds a bad one so you won't lose capacity (or even notice) when the odd sector or two goes bad.

I'll spare the math (this isn't slashdot after all) but you can generally write non-stop to these drives for something like 2-5 years before you're into failure territory. The only way that would happen is if you had it in a high demand database server or similar. In normal computer/laptop use the drive will greatly outlive the usefullness of it's size. You'll replace it before it wears out.