Commodore 128 Alive!

General => General chat => Links => Topic started by: Guest on November 09, 2007, 03:24 AM

Title: RAMLink in the news.
Post by: Guest on November 09, 2007, 03:24 AM
I blogged today about the fact that the SSD craze in the PC world is nothing new to use C= folks!

Digg It! (http://digg.com/hardware/When_Were_the_First_SSDs_Introduced)
Title: RAMLink in the news.
Post by: Mark Smith on November 09, 2007, 05:41 AM
The scale is a little different though :-)
Title: RAMLink in the news.
Post by: airship on November 09, 2007, 06:41 AM
Not when you consider the ratio of non-volatile storage space to total sytsem RAM:

16MB (RAMlink maximum capacity) / 64K (C64 standard RAM) = 250

16GB (HyperDrive 4 maximum capacity) / 1GB (Dell low-end PC) = 16

The RAMlink offers almost SIXTEEN TIMES as much relative capacity as the HyperDrive! COMMODORE WINS! :träna:
Title: RAMLink in the news.
Post by: Guest on November 09, 2007, 06:45 AM
Quote from: strandedinnzThe scale is a little different though :-)
Well, an argument could be made that if the RL had become a C= backed product that it would have sold in far greater numbers (at a far lower price).  However, it was not uncommon for people to own these.  Prior to the new SSDs that use ATA/100 and SATA over the last couple of years, only very, very high end systems had SSDs which cost upwards of $50,000.
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