TechRadar: Exclusive: Seagate 'exploring' possible new line of crypto-specific hard drives

[jim bell]

 I think I said that...somewhere.   As the inventor of the SSD, back in August 1980, the only real option available was 64kbit DRAMs, eventually shifting to 256kbit (1983) and 1 mbit by about 1987.    S100 Computers - SemiDisk History

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The unlimited lifetime, both read and write, of a DRAM was assumed...
However, I don't know enough about the disk-usage characteristics of this new kind of storage-crypto to know what the cost trade-offs are.  Can most of the 'disk' reads/writes be cached?  That would certainly minimize SD card usage, and thus limit the wearout mechanisms.    
                      Jim Bell

    On Monday, May 31, 2021, 03:20:45 AM PDT, Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 How about 2-4 TBs of RAM? Removes the wear-and-tear issue of SSDs. 🤑
On Mon, May 31, 2021, 9:06 AM jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

TechRadar: Exclusive: Seagate 'exploring' possible new line of crypto-specific hard drives.
https://www.techradar.com/news/exclusive-seagate-exploring-possible-new-line-of-crypto-specific-hard-drives

  
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