[omnicronx]

Many of you guys are confusing the max data transfer speeds with actually read and write times. Flash memory in theory is MUCH MUCH faster when reading than any Hard drive but its sustained transfer speeds are on par or lower. That said, I have never noticed a program take more than 10 megs of ram on my device (with most programs being under 4M), so sustained transfer speeds means little to nothing and the actual read and write times become much more important. SD cards can also be writing too many more than 1000 times, I don't know the actually number, but when you consider that current SSD hard drives are rated to run for 5 years with a high average or writes, I don't think it would be an issue on a mobile device, when there is only a fraction of the amount of writes. (after all, pre WM5 devices were all flashed based, and some of my friends still have their devices and it is going on 3-4 years.

In the end something gives me a feeling this limitation is not because of flash memory speeds, but because of the way windows CE memory management works. Too bad, because it looks like I am going to have to upgrade my apache.. just not enough ram..