5th February 2008

Cool CF Adapter

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Check out this PCI adapter that lets you use up to 4 CF cards as a SSD (via John).

Of course I have a bunch of more questions-

Can this support the newer huge CF cards? 64GB ones are supposed to exist although the largest on NewEgg is 32GB. But the 32GB one only costs $134, so a 128GB SSD for $600 would be awesome. The pictures only show the 2GB and 4GB cards so?

There are versions of this that work with notebook sized IDE and SATA adapters. I bought one of the IDE ones before I realized that the app I have in mind I really should have gotten the SATA one.

Is there going to be a PCI-Express version soon?

What does the performance look like? For boot? Does it help Windows runtime performance much? Would you want to use it as Swap? What about for running a database?

I wonder if this thing would be interesting for data-center machines. If you could have great performance and higher reliability than a hard-drive, this would be really attractive for servers. For your typical web-server 128GB is more than enough…

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  1. 1 On February 6th, 2008, brett said:

    i ordered one of these to play with. my concern is that typical speed of CF cards are slower than HDD. On new egg, the sandisk extreme III (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171256) is listed at “133x” or 20 Mb/s.

    My existing HDD gives me 100+ Mb/s.

  2. 2 On February 7th, 2008, Alex said:

    Yea, that is a concern. The stats on the SSD in the new MacBook Air are apparently disappointing… So as a server solution it is not seeming so hot anymore…

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