Yes, the basic technology is flash memory, but it is packaged and accessed in the form of a disk drive, and it is conventional to refer to it in that way. Clai

Yes, the basic technology is flash memory, but it is packaged and accessed in the form of a disk drive, and it is conventional to refer to it in that way. Claiming "512GB flash memory" is a pretty non-standard way of saying "contains an array of 8x64GB SSDs", or however they've organised it. Other vendors don't do that. The implementation of the storage array is a pretty salient factor in a device of this type, wouldn't you say? I would certainly want to know, for example, the interface by which the array was accessed, its filesystem, its RAID type, etc. Referring to them as "memory" implies a memory-bus-speed interface, and the x-25 is a SATA device. http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm The implementation and interface is highly relevant. To take the argument to its absurd extreme, they could bundle a couple of hundred 2GB USB sticks in the box. Would it still be cool to say it had hundreds of gigabytes of "flash memory"?