Diy Ssd

Century Offers DIY Solid State Disks On The Cheap | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

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Originally Posted by Wired

If Crucial's $1500 SSD is too expensive for you, you might consider going the home-made route. Century will sell you an adapter which takes three CompactFlash cards and turns them into a SATA drive. The maximum size is a dreamy...(but theoretical) two Terabytes

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GeekStuff4U.com - DIY SSD

:laugh: how much??

Quad-CF PCI Controller from Addonics

:) more like it. why cant the sata interface one be around that price?

I saw the first one on Engadget earlier. GeekStuff4u are really expensive.

Compare: GeekStuff4U.com - 2.5" and 3.5" SATA HDD Stage Rack
to : Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

The Adonics adapter is tempting though

There was a a €75 one here - Building your own Solid State Drive (guide)

Intersting article. I'd have thought though that the obvious thing to do would be to use the onboard RAID controller that virtually all motherboards have these days with a CF card on each sata port (with an IDE to SATA adapter) I'd imagine that 4 x 8GB GF's in hardware RAID0 would be fairly rapid?
I'd still side with a mechanical disk and hibernate windows when I'm not using it to avoid any lengthy startup times, bootdisk is then fairly irrelevant....

Steve

how about 8x microdrives? hdd tech, CF size.. a bunch of them together must be pretty nippy?

pretty sure microdrives are pretty pants at transfer rates and seek times compaired to flash. The advantage they have is price per GB, hence why they are used in DAPs.

The main advantage of Flash is the near instant access time, microdrives are damn slow in comparison.

Microdrives are just miniture 1" hard drives and are dead slow, 8x transfer rates are around 5MB/s!