By Andy Zheng
SSDS invented by IBM in mid 1950s Charged Capacitor Read Only Store (CCROS) Predecessor to today’s flash memory Core Memory created at the same time Used by NASA for it’s stability
Used by early supercomputers of IBM (1970s-1980s) Price of SSD too expensive General Instruments used EAROM in 1970s Early version of NAND flash Life span of this was <10 years
M-Systems introduced flash-based SSDs, 1995 No batteries required High I/O performance and reliability Not as fast as DRAM Since then SSD successfully replace HDD Slowly becoming more mainstream