[rescue] Vaxen?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Scott Newell wrote:

> >I still want a cabinet of core with a SCSI interface.
>
> 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.

They do this already.  It's called a solid state disk.

Peace...  Sridhar