The endurance of flash memory would be a severe limitation. Some has read/write cycles of only 10,000 before failure, some over 300,000. But failure would be reasonably quick if used in an operating system environment where read-writes are frequent.
FLASH memory is speedy when you read it, but pretty slow when you write it. I develop avionics for a living, and we use lots of FLASH memory for program and data storage, I'm pretty familiar with the limitations of FLASH memory. Think about the speed of the programming of your BIOS when you do an update, if that were a hard disk, it would just happen in the blink of an eye, not over the span of 10-15 seconds.
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