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Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 26 May 2000 01:32:11 GMT
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Quantum still makes these, and calls them Solid State Disks. They have a bad
size/capacity ratio, but phenomenal access times and reads-per-second rates.
http://www.quantum.com/products/ssd/ultra/ultra_overview.htm
-Cheese
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Tom Napolitano writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, John Morgan writes:
> > Perhaps you are talking about a SCSI RAM drive ? this is a SCSI DVD RAM
> > Recorder .....I have never heard of SCSI RAM as in SCSI accessed RAM Memory
> > modules.. but I have seen SCSI DVD RAM drives ....They use thier own version
> of
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> In the olden days before processors could address massive amounts of
> RAM, you could get cards and external peripherals that contained dynamic
> volatile RAM on a SCSI interface that would behave like very fast disk.
> It was used for video processing temporary storage where the volatility
> was not an issue.
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> Cheers,
> tomnap@bersama.net
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| (...) of In the olden days before processors could address massive amounts of RAM, you could get cards and external peripherals that contained dynamic volatile RAM on a SCSI interface that would behave like very fast disk. It was used for video (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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