new way for SSD

[rook]

Hi

have anyone tried this DIY SSD IDE ?

it seems to be nice stuff: video about (SATA version)

but i think that it still costs too much, ~$200 + 3x (for example) 16GB CF (ebay: example OEM 16GB CF x150) ~$60 = ~$380 for 48GB or 32GB (in Raid5) PseudoSSD working with average speed about 20-22MB/s

what do you think about ?
it's worth ?

[aaa]

No. Real SSDs cost about the same, and are faster (about 60mb/s at that price IIRC).


People have already done the CF card thing though, just not with an expensive raid controller.

[makai]

Personally I don't trust CF for something as critical as running my OS of keeping my data. I've had CFs corrupt in several of my ipods at various times, and not just once. There are several people here that are running CFs with adapters (not like the one you posted), and I guess they're having various degrees of success.

[rbena]

Personally I don't trust CF for something as critical as running my OS of keeping my data.

I tend to agree. The better cards perform reliably for storing files. But I'm not convinced CF is the best device for constant read/write activities that a physical hard drive performs remarkably well, and provides low-cost high volume storage.

No doubt a lot of work has gone into the development and reliability of the solid state hard drives, which may be the 'common drive' of the future. If cost is the only barrier, it should presumably come down as with other digital storage media.

[sjthinkpader]

Take a look at this thread:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

SSDs use the same flash chips as CF. Faster speed simply means they may have chips running in parallel. You won't find speed benchmarking for SSD vs HDD write speeds because flash chips are much slower.

[rbena]

You won't find speed benchmarking for SSD vs HDD write speeds because flash chips are much slower.

Thanks for that. I guess my priority is volume storage in my main hard drive (leaving the modular bay free), and it's why I keep upgrading: 30GB - 80GB - 160GB.

SSD with smaller storage capacity can't meet this need at the present time, and is worth looking at later.