Like I said in another branch of this subthread, the question wasn't "can you build a high perf flash drive yourself" but "can you build an SSD more easily than

Like I said in another branch of this subthread, the question wasn't "can you build a high perf flash drive yourself" but "can you build an SSD more easily than a magnetic drive." The comparison here is that no matter how much you hunt on digikey you won't find a disk platter or drive head or any of the other precision machined parts that go into a hard drive (never mind putting them together and keeping dust out etc).