Read more.Latest creation from Walton Chaintech takes a duo of CompactFlash cards to create a low-cost solid-state storage solution.
Read more.Latest creation from Walton Chaintech takes a duo of CompactFlash cards to create a low-cost solid-state storage solution.
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.
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![]()
would like to see speeds with a couple of those sandisk 64GB extreme 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
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.
The ones that are £500 and would be slower RAIDed than an SSD of the same physical size?
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