[rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

I think there was even a late-1980s "SSD in all but name" that could be connected to an ESCON channel for IBM mainframes. 

Pretty sure I saw one in a museum, somewhere :-)

That would also classify as "mass storage" but was not based on spinning Fe2O3.

--Patrick

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From: "Dave McGuire via rescue" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
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Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2024 9:44:09 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...


   That's exactly what I would think, if there were ever any implication 
about a SCSI mass storage device being a hard disk drive, but there 
hasn't.  It was always (by far) the most common implementation, but it 
was never a requirement that anything be rotating, and there were 
other-than-HDD SCSI mass storage devices since the beginning of SCSI.

               -Dave