Funny! - solid state raid array for 75 EUR

It was fascinating, and Im probably going to try this, but the pictures were funny, nearly spilt my coffee in the office.
Thinking of sticking a Linux distro on it and see how I get on, and it means I get to use up an old ATA133 controller that I have lying around :D
 
There is a place on line that sells them for laptops. i cant tell you where as OCUK wont like it..

But you could search for this "44pin IDE to Compact Flash Adapter" and should find it in the first page.!!!:D

They also do them to Sata as well.

Rob
 
Does anyone know why the adapeters are only compatible with CF I/II and not the newer III and IV cards? Can't see the problem given that the pin layout on the CF cards is the same as that of the IDE interface?
 
cavemanoc said:
Does anyone know why the adapeters are only compatible with CF I/II and not the newer III and IV cards? Can't see the problem given that the pin layout on the CF cards is the same as that of the IDE interface?
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Snip from wikipedia

There are two main subdivisions of CF cards, Type I (3.3 mm thick) and the thicker Type II (CF2) cards (5 mm thick). The CF Type II slot is used by Microdrives and some other devices. There are four main speeds of cards including the original CF, CF High Speed (using CF+/CF2.0), a faster CF 3.0 standard and a yet faster CF 4.0 standard that is being adopted as of 2007. The thickness of the CF card type is dictated by the preceding PCMCIA card type standard which was used for data storage in previous years.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Flash
The type your talking about is the speed of the cards not the hight
 
So are you saying that the adapters available on the bay that are type I/II compatible will work with the newer Type IV cards capable of the really fast speeds - was pretty sure they weren't? :confused:
 
Depends if the adapter card you have supports DMA mode. I have got 2 from the same place one does and one did not.. There is a site that shows you how to convert the card to a DMA version but I don't know the address. I would not bother on the bay and look at my post above to find the other site with them on.

The Type of the adapter is the size it accepts EG type 1 or 2 There are only 2 Versions.

The Type of the card is its speed rating normally sandisks version. Eg ultra ii / ultra iii / iv etc.. the speed of the card is normally shown as well as x44 speed you can work the speed out by 150Kb x 44 = 6600Kb or 6.6Mb a sec.

again wiki

There are four main speeds of cards including the original CF, CF High Speed (using CF+/CF2.0), a faster CF 3.0 standard and a yet faster CF 4.0 standard that is being adopted as of 2007

Rob.
 
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The_Max_Sti said:
Depends if the adapter card you have supports DMA mode. I have got 2 from the same place one does and one did not.. There is a site that shows you how to convert the card to a DMA version but I don't know the address. I would not bother on the bay and look at my post above to find the other site with them on.

The Type of the adapter is the size it accepts EG type 1 or 2 There are only 2 Versions.

The Type of the card is its speed rating normally sandisks version. Eg ultra ii / ultra iii / iv etc.. the speed of the card is normally shown as well as x44 speed you can work the speed out by 150Kb x 44 = 6600Kb or 6.6Mb a sec.

again wiki

There are four main speeds of cards including the original CF, CF High Speed (using CF+/CF2.0), a faster CF 3.0 standard and a yet faster CF 4.0 standard that is being adopted as of 2007

Rob.
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Excellent - thanks for that - completely missed the point there first time round! :p
 
Very interesting, I'd really need for it to be offering upwards of 50mb/s before I would think about changing from my existing hard drive but it looks like the potential is there.
 
Looks like they're only averaging about 40MB/s unfortunately, although some of the 266x manufacturers now guarantee a minimum 40mb/s - not bad, but still needs to improve - next gen should be interesting - especially in raid.

The SanDisk Ducati seems to be the fastest (45mb/s) - anyone know of a faster one?
 
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40MB/s is actually quite good compared to a 2.5" harddisk so for laptops they can be an excellent alternative.

There are 3.5" SSD drives that have 120MB/s read and 100MB/s write but they are still horribly expensive.
 
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