XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 2/5/2025 7:05 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 10:18:28 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote:   
   >   
   >> ... that's the reason why it is called "solid state disk" and not "flash   
   >> media disk".   
   >>   
   >> JFTR: In the past there were in fact SSDs based on RAM chips with   
   >> battery backup - for example the "memory cards" of some pocket computers   
   >> or programmable calculators.   
   >   
   > But those were never called “solid state disks” though, where they.   
   >   
      
   Gigabyte iRAM.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM   
      
      "The i-RAM was a PCI card-mounted, battery-backed RAM disk that behaved   
       and was marketed as a solid-state storage device."   
      
   Someone held a patent, which may have caused those to go away.   
      
   One other problem with those, is their SATA info (emulation of a SATA) was   
   a bit incomplete for some purposes. Someone took an Areca RAID card and plugged   
   those in, and the Areca did not find the metadata palatable enough for the job.   
   Maybe missing a serial number or something. Thus, hopes were dashed at the   
   time, of setting a benchmark record :-)   
      
   I expect there are unemployed engineers running some home-brew ones   
   of those in their basement. That is about as close as poor people   
   will get to owning one.   
      
      Paul   
      
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