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This Early SSD Was WILD | Action Retro (youtube.com)
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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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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

You know, I would really love SSD made out of volatile memory for my /tmp.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Just put tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=4G 0 0 in /etc/fstab then reboot and /tmp will be a RAM drive. Set size to whatever you want the maximum size to be.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    A lot of Linux distros do this by default. Alternatively you can use /dev/shm when you need a RAM disk, since it's guaranteed to always be a RAM disk (whereas /tmp may or may not be).

    The actual purpose of /dev/shm is shared memory (storing stuff in memory that's shared across multiple processes) but I see it used as a generic RAM disk all the time.

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    • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Invidious link.

    This is the exact kind of weird hardware nonsense I love.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Is that where cxl came from

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