Date   : Fri, 06 May 2011 10:30:27 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: SSDs for Beebs

On 06/05/2011 08:11, John Kortink wrote:
>
> On Thu, 05 May 2011 14:59:53 -0500, Jules Richardson
> <jules.richardson99@...>  wrote:
>
>> There's some mention of it here:
>>
>>    http://telcontar.net/Misc/random/SRAM-drive.php
>
> Surely you jest. That's just a (very small) RAM disc.
> Nothing that couldn't be done just as well with, say,
> the Master's extra internal memory.
>
> Not solid state storage at all.

Depends how you define 'storage' really, yes it's not perminent, in that 
the contents are lost when the power is removed (unless it's batery 
backed). But I'd say that a ramdrive qualifies as solid state and 
backing store, especially considdering that it's connected to the 1MHz 
bus and not part of the internal RAM.

I would imagine that if you powered the unit from a seperate PSU, not 
the aux socket of the Beeb, you could switch the beeb off and still keep 
the contents of the device.

Ok, it's not like modern flash rom on a USB stick or SD/MMC but I'd say 
personally that yes it is solid state storage.

Cheers,

Phill.