[rescue] Vaxen?

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:22:20AM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> 
> Another goofy memory idea:  take a box the size of a cdrom, fill it with
> the biggest, cheapest ram you can find, stick an IDE/SCSI interface on it.
> Maybe even run some kind of low power battery backup/refresh circuit so
> that the sucker is nonvolatile.  I'll bet you could physically fit several
> GB, and it would be one _fast_ drive.
> 
> Not really practical anymore with 64 bit CPUs and their huge address space,
> I guess.

it already exists.  it's called SSD (Solid State Device) and it's amazingly
expensive considering what it is. ;)

i know quantum makes some, with and without disks as backup for power loss.

-brian
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"He's hopped up on caffeine. He has the strength of ten mice."  -PVP