[sassan]

With terabyte hard drives not only readily available, but so cheap now a days, it seems very difficult for flash memories to play a realistic storage role. But then as an OS only or sensitive compartment like pen devices, they have their place and room to grow.

And yes "In moving parts we don't trust". HD, floppy drives, optical drives are the parts of computer to be blamed with every failure. Chips, mother board, ram are the last things to check. The only exception in this rule is video cards that do fail often, may be because of those overclocked etc etc and the resultant internal heat and vital need to the cooling device like fan (Again a moving part) that cause their vulnerability.