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The Solid Future Of Solid-State Disks: Page 4 of 4

SSDs will eventually replace the platter drive in all aspects. The bottleneck isn't technology, merely price. Soon, data centers will be quieter, cooler, more robust and, above all, faster.

TIMELINE
1985: Santa Clara Systems begins shipping SSD devices in the form of BatRam: battery backed-up storage devices for desktop systems

1988: SanDisk is founded by Dr. Eli Harari and begins to work toward solid-state storage solutions

1995: MSystem introduces flash RAM-based SSDs

2000: Card Flash to IDE adapters become widely available, allowing CF RAM cards to be used as substitute IDE devices

2006: SanDisk buys MSystem

Bill Silvey is an IT professional specializing in desktop-to-server workstation connectivity and enterprise solutions. He has worked for NASA, Advanced System Technologies and STAR Systems and is a freelance columnist for InformationWeek. Write to him at [email protected].