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Solid State Disk Drive

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From: simmons5275
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:37
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I recently was reading about a solid state disk drive composed of
banks of sram from one of the 1990 issues of radio electronics. I like
the idea but the card that they had could only handle 512k. How 
possible would It be to create the same idea, ie. ram backed up with
battery for when the sys is off and set up like a disk drive with the 
driver software, for 16-->who knows megabytes. Seems to me you could take
a jdr microdevices 16 meg card that uses simms, and add some batery
circuitry and write a driver for the drive. If this is possible I 
would be very interested in it. Just think of how lightning quick
that sucker would be. Almost the ideal place to install windows. I am 
aware of current ramdisk software but it cant save on power down so it
doesnt really interest me. I would be leaving my comp on most of the
time anyway but if th power went out Id hate to have to reinstall everything
again. Therefore the only logical solutin to me is a 32 meg solid state 
disk drive. If anyone has info on either the existence or the feasibility 
of this please let me know asap.

Rob

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