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arstechnica.com - 24 days ago

Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk

— arstechnica.com — Faster and dramatically more power-efficient than rotating magnetic media, solid-state disks (SSDs) are one of the longest-awaited... and most eagerly anticipated technologies in the past two decades of computing. The ... (more) Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk

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Biography of the solid state disk
DV Hardware — ARS Technica takes a look at the history behind the solid state disk, you can read it over here. Solid-state memory has been around since very nearly the beginning of computing, but a great many of the details have changed since that earlier time when ferrous ring memory was programmed with copper coils. The first nonvolatile semiconductor memory technology even theoretically suitable for use as a disk was Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), invented by Intel in 1978. Using floating-gate transistors to store bits of ...