Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop

Like it says, CITATION NEEDED.

Magnetic disks fail too.  They've got moving parts in them!!!!!  Maybe you've never had a
magnetic disk fail, but I bet you know someone who has.

I've been using exclusively flash storage for a couple of years now and it has been very
reliable.  Yes, I compile things, download things and so on; in fact I spend most of my time
doing exactly that, on flash drives.  I have had one USB "thumb drive" fail, but it was a
cheap one and I don't believe it was anything related to the write limit; none of my IDE
drives or modules has ever had a problem.

As for the power consumption, I have found my drives to take at least an order of magnitude
less than magnetic disks.

The greatest benefit for me, however, is that they are silent.