solid state HD's?

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Hey all,

I was looking to see what's available in solid state HD's -- looks like the
prices are still in orbit. I got to thinking about some kind of battery
backed ide interface running SDRAM. On google, I found some references to
a "Platypus QikDRIVE". Unfortunately, looks like they've gone out of
business.

Know of any others?
 
Hey all,

I was looking to see what's available in solid state HD's -- looks like the
prices are still in orbit. I got to thinking about some kind of battery
backed ide interface running SDRAM. On google, I found some references to
a "Platypus QikDRIVE". Unfortunately, looks like they've gone out of
business.

Know of any others?
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A yahoo search for solid state disk is what you want.
 
T said:
Would Compact Flash do?
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The CF drives I've found only take one CF module. I was looking for an IDE
interface where I could plug in as many sticks of ram (SDRAM or perhaps PC
100 or ?) as I wanted - say up to 20 sticks of battery-backed, fan-cooled
ram.

The goal is a large capacity, relatively cheap drive.
 
The CF drives I've found only take one CF module. I was looking for an IDE
interface where I could plug in as many sticks of ram (SDRAM or perhaps PC
100 or ?) as I wanted - say up to 20 sticks of battery-backed, fan-cooled
ram.
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The goal is a large capacity, relatively cheap drive.
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Looking at the prices, it seems that the cheapest route would be to buy
a stack of cheap motherboards, put in the slowest cheapest processor they
will accept, stuff each one full of memory, and chain them together with
ethernet cables and map the file space across their net. That can give
you up to 4 gigabytes of ram per board and the cost of the boards and
connections is only a fraction of the price of 20 gig of memory.

Back in the last century there were folks who made boards that would plug
into the ISA bus and let you add memory, but nobody I can find has done
that in many years.

Paying far more than the alternative I suggested above, you could get
an obscenely expensive server motherboard that would accept more memory.
 
The CF drives I've found only take one CF module. I was looking for an IDE
interface where I could plug in as many sticks of ram (SDRAM or perhaps PC
100 or ?) as I wanted - say up to 20 sticks of battery-backed, fan-cooled
ram.

The goal is a large capacity, relatively cheap drive.
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Well, you aint going to find it. At least not what I'd call cheap. $999.00
for a card with 1G was the cheapest I found, and it only has 4 sdram slots
and will max out at 4g. BTW, PC100 is sdram. If that's not enough ram, you
can get a ramsan-320 with 16Gig for about $33K..:-) But it's not internal.
Now you can get a 2gig cf for about $150.
 
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