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Info on erly SSD's

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First post, by austinham

Posted on 2020-05-15, 17:15

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I'm looking for any info on early SSD. any date before 2006. I know about CF to IDE card and the i-drive and disk on module. But what about more convenchle 2.5", 3.5" and 5.25 drives? were the ever made?

Reply 1 of 3, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2020-05-15, 17:47

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See this article:
https://www.storagesearch.com/chartingtheriseofssds.html

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Reply 2 of 3, by hwh

Posted on 2020-05-16, 01:29

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Interesting, but early disks are frequently non reliable - at least MLCs, which were the first affordable SSDs.

Reply 3 of 3, by wiretap

Posted on 2020-05-16, 02:43

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The MODCOMP Classic computers I scrapped at work a few months back all had primitive solid state drives by DATARAM (2MB fully populated). This was mid-1970's technology.. see here: http://www.storagesearch.com/dataram-bulkcore.pdf

These are often cited as the roots of modern SSD's. We used them from the early 80's up until 2013 and they rarely had failures. Usually it was only a single memory chip failing on a single board inside that could easily be swapped in minutes.

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