Many enthusiasts have adopted flash storage. These users often have their OS, a few games and data-intensive applications such as audio-, video- and image-editing software on a flash drive or even a flash RAID array. Main storage of files that don’t require speed – and also perhaps those subject to a lot of erasing – could be stored on a cost-effective and potentially massive conventional hard drive. Other enthusiasts may use all flash, depending on whether they are enthusiastic about flash itself or its attributes like silence, speed and the elimination of bottlenecks. Flash has those bases covered. As interest in flash storage has grown in the market, industry watchers have also pointed out a frequently overlooked caveat with flash: While its speed and random read access is far superior to traditional hard drives, in heavy use (especially for some forms), longevity is reduced. This reduction is due to flash’s relatively limited tolerance for write-erase cycles. Taking that into consideration, along with the additional cost per GB and the particular workload they are designed for, users must carefully select and provision data for this medium. Manufactures are working on features like wear leveling and DRAM/NVRAM caching to provide flash storage with better performance while reducing flash SSD write amplification to improve reliability