Diy Ssd

[0iD]

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

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

GeekStuff4U.com - DIY SSD

[MadduckUK]

how much??

Quad-CF PCI Controller from Addonics

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

[Funkstar]

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

[mycarsavw]

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

[sjbuck]

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

[MadduckUK]

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

[Funkstar]

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.

[sjbuck]

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

[DDY]

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