Comments on: DIY SSD Drive Test: a RAID5 HDD with 3 Compact Flash

By: Rik

Rik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:08:41 +0000

Is it just me or is that raid setup even slower than a hard drive bought in 1997? Only 10MB/S ?

By: Anonymous2

Anonymous2 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:47:40 +0000

May I ask what the song is in the background?

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:19:12 +0000

I Would rather buy a single or dual CF to SATA adapter ($35-$80 from Addonics respectively) and spend the saved money on bigger, faster (266x would work for Linux distros) and just use the drive planning on it failing (like with any flash option).

By: pcnoob

pcnoob — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:10 +0000

waste of time and money

just get an SSD drive, bigger – faster – cheaper – ready to use

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-TechBargains&cm_mmc=AFC-TechBargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16820227344

By: anonymouscoward

anonymouscoward — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:09:07 +0000

the price is still crazy

By: steviesteveo

steviesteveo — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:11:36 +0000

That’s totally fascinating. It’s good to see solid state memory used in a way that takes advantage of the smaller physical size like this instead of bulking out memory chips so they’re the size of a regular drive. This puts three drives into the space of one and lets you get very compact raid.

That said, to be very petty I couldn’t clearly read all the labels on your photos because of the narrow depth of field. If you wouldn’t mind using a slightly higher f/ number for future this will make tracking down components by serial number easier.

By: CrazyCCA

CrazyCCA — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:50:34 +0000

Very interesting this article about the SSD. This is the future of the hardware storage.