[plug] [OT] Acer Lappy

[W.Kenworthy]

Years back (in DOS5 days) you could get ROM boards for the OS, and ram
boards for the filesystem you wanted to write to.  Often used in
equipment controllers where a HD is excessive, and reliability was
important.  Downside was cost.  I am sure they have advanced a lot from
back then though!

BillK

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:19 +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:42, Senectus . wrote:
> > Plus the fact that it's solid state.. should make it a lot harder
> > wearing and more resistant against droppage etc.
> > Personally I'm really looking forward to this.. cause hard drives
> > have always been the biggest bugbear for laptops..
> 
> What about inherent lifetime limitations with respect to the number of 
> read/erases/write operations of these drives?
> 
> There may be a lot of advantages to it, but I'm skeptical about 
> durability being one of them for the foreseeable future.
> 
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