vkcpolice wrote on 2022-03-19, 09:37:
so what other modern storage solutions are out there besides ide to cf cards?
RAM "disks", also. Or RAM "drives", as hipsters now call them. As if not both terms do falsely refer to moving parts. 😉
The type of RAM disk I mean were physical storage devices based on DDR/DDR2 RAM.
They either connected via PCI or IDE/SATA.
They were very expensive, though. But provided almost instant booting and disk access.
Just like a traditional RAM disk that's managed through the OS.
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In the distant past, such RAM disks were also sometimes attached via floppy controller.
Thus, they could be used in DOS based environments very easily.
Sizes went from 512 KB to 2 MB or 4MB.
Looking back, this seems very silly perhaps, but there used to be high-speed floppy controllers in the MBit/s range. These were used for streamers, for example.
And years before that, innovative PC compatible computers in the spirit of the Tandy 1000 had battery-backed RAM that could be used as RAM drive.
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