Lord_Majestic - 9:26 pm on Aug 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

only that it would work adequately for most

Ok, lets say you have this device and you offer web hosting plan of 100 MB for $5 per month. This is enough for most sites. However your competitor uses magnetic disks and offers 1000 MB for the same $5 per month. Both you and your competitor know that most customers won't use even half of the space offered. Who would get clients however, you or your competitor?

More importantly knowing that most people won't use up allocated space it allows to oversell it, so to maximise revenues from the same CPU/memory you need to whack as much as possible disk space into the system to host as many customers as you can.

Flash has got its niche, but there is no way it will replace magnetic disks anytime soon - I'd say never because there are new ideas of persistent non-magnetic storage that makes flash look bad.