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This Early SSD Was WILD | Action Retro (youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/retrocomputing

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Today we're looking at the iRAM, and early (and wild) SSD from 2006. A slightly cursed idea at the time, but how does it stack up in 2025?

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[–] M68040@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Really more of a hardware RAM disk, but CompuPro offered a board called the M-drive for their S-100 ecosystem in the early '80s. 512k of DRAM-based storage; one board cost $1,895 in 02/1983. The potential existed to use up to eight boards in one system, which would give the user a 4MB RAM disk.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That would be 6,164$ in today's money. And here I am, complaining that a 24TB drive is 300$ lmao :P

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You hear people saying everything is more expensive now, and for low-tech things that's true, but electronics have sure gone the other way hard.

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

FWIW CompuPro targeted the enterprise and scientific markets. Something like this wouldn’t be something a individual home/hobbyist/small business user would be buying.