Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:54:32 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jbryant@tfs.net Cc: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solid State Disks Message-ID: <199710211854.TAA00963@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199710211341.IAA11750@argus.tfs.net> from "Jim Bryant" at Oct 21, 97 08:41:01 am
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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
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