[CUBE] The thing to replace HDs

[Erik Ableson]

We're getting there though - watching the spread of all of the new USB 
"keychain" drives that are basically the same thing.  I remember a box 
that was marketed as a solid state storage for Macs a while back that 
was a large box (a little bigger than a Cube) that was nothing more 
than 4 slide out boards covered in SIMM slots that had a SCSI 
interface.  We had one on evaluation that absolutely rocked, but we 
just couldn't justify the cost.

So does anyone want to hack a board together that could be mounted 
inside another Cube case - that would be way cool - two cube cases side 
by side with a FW connector one being just stacked full of RAM.

Unfortunately the cost/Gb of RAM vs cheap IDE storage is still an order 
of magnitude of difference.

Pricewatch today:
1Gb DIMM PC 133: $104 (which just blows my mind BTW)
80Gb EIDE: $89

$1 vs $100 still hurts a lot...

Erik

On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 04:48 PM, riba at hi.hinet.hr wrote:

> I remember in late eighties there was a board for Amiga computers that
> contained 32 MB of ram and was marketed as HD replacement (remember, 
> the size
> of HD in those days were in sub-40 MB range). It was _fast_. It 
> contained
> static memory, that would keep the data when you turn off the 
> computer, and if
> you turned it on it will come up instantly. Something like sleep mode 
> today. It
> costed a _fortune_.