Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

Perhaps the middle ground is to come up with some (de facto?) standardised way for manufacturers to categorise how their flash algorithms are optimised. (In addition to any minimum/maximum speed claims, etc.) "Optimised for video streaming", and "optimised for FAT32" being two raised by the article as relatively common, but there's a need for several more categories. At least that way, even without knowing the exact details of how, one could attempt to match the media purchased to the intended workload. Because at the moment it seems tricky as a purchaser to do that, outside perhaps video streaming and assuming everything else is optimised for the FAT file system on it at purchase.

Ewen