From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jun 29 09:32:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15914 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15877 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00496; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806291631.JAA00496@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Marc Nicholas cc: Bertrand Petit , "Christopher G. Petrilli" , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:07:05 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:31:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Bertrand Petit wrote: > > > > So either grab a motherboard with DiskOnChip support or use a flash drive > > > with an IDE or SCSI interface. > > > > Flash SCSI! Do such beasts exist? > > > > I'm really fond of SCI, it would be really interesting to play > > with this. > > Yup, they exist. M-Systems makes one and there's another vendor (who's > name escapes me right now) that makes SCSI flash and SCSI SRAM drives as > its core business. > > They're HORRIBLY expensive... Industrial Computer Source do a battery-backed SCSI DRAM disk that takes up to 256MB in standard 72-pin SIMMS. 5.25" HH form factor, US$1695.00 empty, 7 hours backup That's pretty rough, but they also have the M-systems SCSI flash units. To put some perspective on "HORRIBLY", list price for the 896MB M-systems flash SCSI disk from ICS is $21955.00 (not a typo, that is eight hundred and ninety-six megabytes for twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars). Bottom of the range is the 16MB unit for a mere $1085.00 -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message