From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 21 11:30:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA01779 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA01764 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA28247 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:30:46 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA00963; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:54:32 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199710211854.TAA00963@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Solid State Disks To: jbryant@tfs.net Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:54:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710211341.IAA11750@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 21, 97 08:41:01 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jim Bryant wrote... > In reply: > > Anybody seen any good literature/prices on this sort of thing lately. How > > long are they rumored to exist. It would be really cool if a PC was like > > an hp48, damn thing never crashes and is basically always on. > > kinda cool... SS disks have been around for a while, but i don't > recall non-volatility though. Oh sure, they exist. DEC sells (Quantum) SSDs which also contain a NiCD battery and a normal magnetic disk. When power fails the SSD contents are dumped onto the magnetic one to get data retention. > bubbles... magnetic bubble memory is inherently non-volatile, and the > only problems to be overcome would be speed, and price. but then > again, have you seen the prices on DEC and IBM's SS disks??? Qute he? ;-) _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ------------------ Support your local daemons: run FreeBSD Unix -----Yoda