> 
> I found flash disks in 3,5 and 2,5" cases with about 800MB for 
> about GBP 2.000,-- I guess the powersaving/heat compared to 
> conventional disks will justify the price, for embedded systems 

with such prices only loading compressed system image to normal ram and
then storing compressed data to such device make sense for me.
> whatelseproof case.
> 
> They are also available as ISA cards where 64MB will cost less 
> than USD 100,-- IIRC.

could you point me somewhere?!

i need about 16MB "disk" for routers.