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. [1]S100 Computers - SemiDisk History S100 Computers - SemiDisk History S100 Computers 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 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 <[2]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote: TechRadar: Exclusive: Seagate 'exploring' possible new line of crypto-specific h ard drives. [3]https://www.techradar.com/news/exclusive-seagate-exploring-possible-new-line- of-crypto-specific-hard-drives References Visible links 1. http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware Folder/SemiDisk/History/History.htm 2. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com 3. https://www.techradar.com/news/exclusive-seagate-exploring-possible-new-line-of-crypto-specific-hard-drives Hidden links: 5. http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/SemiDisk/History/History.htm