No, that's not strictly true. Flash is ONLY written when:

-- a new kernel is installed
-- player software is upgraded/replaced
-- power is turned off
-- once every 64 power-on cycles

Other than that, flash is NOT written to.

(when you change sound settings, etc.. these are NOT committed to flash until power-off time).

In fact, when the player is running, I suspect the hard disk is being written to far more often than the flash.. keeping track of the "Mark Track" data, and possibly the "Shuffle" order, and the "Info Seek" display data (not sure about that last one).

Mounting the drives rw AT HOME to dump in a shopping list is a no brainer, guys. It still remains as "readonly" as ever in the car, which is actually not the 100% many of us thought.

I really dislike the idea of storing anything new (and big) in flash. Bad Idea.

Somebody slap Tony silly for us, okay!

-ml