News - Apogee Convertor makes an SSD out of your spare CF cards

[HEXUS]

Latest creation from Walton Chaintech takes a duo of CompactFlash cards to create a low-cost solid-state storage solution.

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[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.

[Noxvayl]

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.

[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

[HW_90]

would like to see speeds with a couple of those sandisk 64GB extreme cards.

[mikerr]

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

[this_is_gav]

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

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.

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?