Diy Ssd ?

[Rastalovich]

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=836

~$200, be interesting to know how this actually performs.

 

[Mr. Smith]

2x16gb CF cards = ~£180, that thing for ~£100 = £280 for a 32gb SSD...

Still not worth it IMO. £1 per GB and I'll be interested, so no SSD's for me for a looooong tiiiime.

Nice find Rast, I'm sure some will be interested. Maybe get one in for a review?

 

[Rastalovich]

Seems a bit costly for what on the face of it looks like an adaptor. But it maybe more than an adaptor hardware wize. Think it takes 3 cards, and rumored raid things.

Pfft, get one in tbh

 

[Luigi]

and.. CF cards have a limited amount of read/writes so it will stop working one day.

 

[Rastalovich]

Limited in what way ?

 

[AdamR79]

I prefer £7.50 delivered...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-CF-Compac...ryZ31531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Rastalovich]

Yep, u only wanna spend that much for a 1:1 adaptor, u get similar things for usb connections `n` stuff.

I still reckon there`s another lean to the electronics to the one in the OP, I`m sure it`s raid over 3 or something.

(if I could get the freakin site to come back up I`d look further)

 

[Luigi]

CF cards have a limited amount of read/writes before they die

Also, you can get those adapters on ebay for 50p...

 

[AdamR79]

Yep, u only wanna spend that much for a 1:1 adaptor, u get similar things for usb connections `n` stuff.

I still reckon there`s another lean to the electronics to the one in the OP, I`m sure it`s raid over 3 or something.

(if I could get the freakin site to come back up I`d look further)

There's no mention of Raid, in fact the details are less forthcoming than the ebay ones

Also I cannot see how it would manage to do raid, apart from transparently, as at the end of the day it plugs into a SATA interface. Surely if you wanted raid, you'd use 2 single adapters?

 

[AdamR79]

CF cards have a limited amount of read/writes before they die

Also, you can get those adapters on ebay for 50p...

You dont really buy them for reliability though, You'd use these in a noise/power consumption sensitive build, i.e. laptop or media centre

 

[Luigi]

i was thinking more for speed..

 

[AdamR79]

nowhere near HDD speeds?

 

[Luigi]

well i know ssds whip there arses..

 

[AdamR79]

but its not ssd, its cf

 

[ali_james]

I've got an ssd in my Eee. Don't really see what the fuss is all about, I guess it helps keeps the size of it all down. Not supposed to have a swap/page file with ssd's either as it wears them out faster due to the limited write transactions you can do.

 

[Luigi]

Even retail ssd's have that limited write?

 

[ali_james]

Even retail ssd's have that limited write?

I guess so, it's not like its a small number though: Wiki

Just reading it again, I don't really think its a huge issue for them.

 

[Luigi]

Well, thats still a bit poor.

Even so, i may get ssd some point this year, keep the swap file on my raptors and it should fly still

 

[PP Mguire]

Even HDs have their limits. So you cant be all negative on that side of getting one of these. Its like a fan has only a certain amount of hours it will spin then it will die. But you see that keeping people away. HDs and SSDs are the same way. Either way, if you have the money to buy one of these in the first place you really wont care.

 

[nunzio]

SSD works great if you keep things like swap/paging files off it and limit what writes/reads you do.