> 2. endurance. Most NAND flash used in USB disks have an endurance of
> 1,000,000 erase cycle. Looks a lot but, depending on the application
> it's not.
> Databases are not designed with that limitation in mind and certainly
> endurance can be a real problem for you. For more details, check
> Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
>

ooooh, this is bad, hard to know exactly what implications this has, but if
a whole block is rewritten when only one byte needs writing, 10^6 writes
will occur in no time flat.
Alan