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From what I gather some people are putting together DIY SSDs with CF cards. But most setups I've seen are with slower CF cards with 20MBs reads and 10MBs writes. Two of these in a RAID 0 array only gets you like 40MBs reads and 20MBs writes, much slower than current generation hard drives which average ~70-80MBs. To top it off the cards they are using don't have wear leveling so they burn out in normal environments.
I'd like to see someone on this forum go a litter more extreme and get 12 of the new STEC MACH4 16GB CF cards which have 90MBs reads and 55MBs writes (that's 2x the speed of the current 300x high speed CF cards) http://www.stec-inc.com/product/mach4cf.php. Buy a CF to SATA adapter for each and put it in a 12 port raid controller in RAID 0 for a 192GB DIY SSD drive with a theoretical 1080MBs read and 600MBs write!! The cards are based on SLC NAND (so they get 10x more writes than MLC) and have wear leveling for ultra high endurance. STEC estimates the drive will last 10 years under normal conditions. Anyone want to try this and post their results?
I'd like to see someone on this forum go a litter more extreme and get 12 of the new STEC MACH4 16GB CF cards which have 90MBs reads and 55MBs writes (that's 2x the speed of the current 300x high speed CF cards) http://www.stec-inc.com/product/mach4cf.php. Buy a CF to SATA adapter for each and put it in a 12 port raid controller in RAID 0 for a 192GB DIY SSD drive with a theoretical 1080MBs read and 600MBs write!! The cards are based on SLC NAND (so they get 10x more writes than MLC) and have wear leveling for ultra high endurance. STEC estimates the drive will last 10 years under normal conditions. Anyone want to try this and post their results?
i'll try...I have that cf to ide adapter you're talking about. I'm only using it as my virtual memory all 8gb of it.