Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:31:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Marc Nicholas <marc@hippocampus.net> Cc: Bertrand Petit <elrond@phoe.netdev.net>, "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@dworkin.amber.org>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. Message-ID: <199806291631.JAA00496@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:07:05 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980629090617.16068A-100000@neuron.hippocampus.net>
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> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Bertrand Petit wrote: > > > > So either grab a motherboard with DiskOnChip support or use a flash drive > > > with an IDE or SCSI interface. > > > > Flash SCSI! Do such beasts exist? > > > > I'm really fond of SCI, it would be really interesting to play > > with this. > > Yup, they exist. M-Systems makes one and there's another vendor (who's > name escapes me right now) that makes SCSI flash and SCSI SRAM drives as > its core business. > > They're HORRIBLY expensive... Industrial Computer Source do a battery-backed SCSI DRAM disk that takes up to 256MB in standard 72-pin SIMMS. 5.25" HH form factor, US$1695.00 empty, 7 hours backup That's pretty rough, but they also have the M-systems SCSI flash units. To put some perspective on "HORRIBLY", list price for the 896MB M-systems flash SCSI disk from ICS is $21955.00 (not a typo, that is eight hundred and ninety-six megabytes for twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars). Bottom of the range is the 16MB unit for a mere $1085.00 -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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