http://www.techworld.com/storage/new...ePos=11&inkc=0

Dated 13 September 2005

Hard drives are living on borrowed time and will be replaced with solid-state Flash memory, according to Samsung's semi-conductor CEO Dr Chang Gyu Hwang.

Hwang's company has just launched a 16Gb NAND Flash chip using 50nm technology, something he used to make his prediction.
But note:
Although flash memory storage on notebooks will not fail from the same kind of mechanical shocks that would kill a notebook hard drive, the flash chips do have a finite life in read/write cycle terms. They won't last for ever.