The new flash modules that Open-E uses has write-leveling built-in and a Write Endurance of at least 2,000,000 times. (I checked.)
Hi Robotbeat, any idea how this compares with an ordinary USB pen drive?

What determines the amount of writing DSS does back to the device, eg. logging.
If it was used in a really simple iSCSI mode (so no logging of any NAS activity), then can we estimate the life of a simple USB pen drive used to boot DSS? Cheers