News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
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Latest creation from Walton Chaintech takes a duo of CompactFlash cards to create a low-cost solid-state storage solution.
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Re: News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
What a pointless idea, 55mb/s i mean common my Seagate 7200.12 can do 110mb/s 2 of these is 4x as fast 1/2 the price and 30x the capicty.
Re: News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
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Originally Posted by
Breezey
What a pointless idea, 55mb/s i mean common my Seagate 7200.12 can do 110mb/s 2 of these is 4x as fast 1/2 the price and 30x the capicty.
What are the access times though?
OS doesn't use more than 50Mb/s for daily operations anyway...
Store your crap(games, media, documents and what ever else) on a conventional drive but stop thinking SSD's are there to store that crap, they are performance pieces of hardware not idle ****-lockers.
Re: News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
IOPS at different file sizes are really the figures we need to see. Certainly, saying it's rubbish because it has low transfer speeds is ill-informed :p
Re: News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
would like to see speeds with a couple of those sandisk 64GB extreme cards.
Re: News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
Nothing new, CF-IDE adaptors have been around since the year dot
- I remember setting up rugged laptops to use them with 64meg CF cards years ago,
long before you could get consumer SSDs
Re: News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards
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miniyazz
IOPS at different file sizes are really the figures we need to see. Certainly, saying it's rubbish because it has low transfer speeds is ill-informed :p
It is rubbish though, as when you buy this plus a couple of even mediocre 16GB CF cards (which start at around £60 by the looks of things), you're looking at the price of a very decent SSD anyway, so the one advantage it would have (access time) is nullified from the off, even disregarding transfer rates.
It will need to have a trick up its sleeve somewhere to be viable... and I can't think of any. Perhaps something for running a tiny Linux distro on a couple of existing very small CF cards or something? That's about as niche as you can get.
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HW_90
would like to see speeds with a couple of those sandisk 64GB extreme cards.
The ones that are £500 and would be slower RAIDed than an SSD of the same physical size?
