The earliest use I could find is more inline with my observations of matter-of-fact usage than a joke taken too far: "Logically, if you utilize a 'memory' disk

The earliest use I could find is more inline with my observations of matter-of-fact usage than a joke taken too far: "Logically, if you utilize a 'memory' disk you are ridding yourself of the physical limitations of disk drive technology — basically trading in the spinning rust. In a disk drive, you are battling physics to squeeze more performance out of your array; there are certain physical properties that just can’t be altered on a whim." - 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20041018152106/http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_dbazine_ault_ssd.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20041018152106/http://www.dba-or... As to the question of its present use as a method to hurt the feelings of hard drives and hard drive cognoscenti... I dunno.