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

By: someguy

someguy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:05:57 +0000

I agree with the first POST. “do it correct or dont”

By: Raymo

Raymo — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:59:15 +0000

I would like to know the name of the second song, also if you were to have 2 sets of these can you raid 0 them using another raid controller? also can i request boot up times using better CF ratings

By: pdruten

pdruten — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:42:35 +0000

Great demo!
Good examples, nice filming!
Keep up the good work…

Paul van Druten

By: _

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:16:44 +0000

The whole point of raid (0 and 5) is to get increased speed over one drive. The only reason this would be useful is if it was used with high speed CF card. The first poster is right, this review is simply not helpful as it doesn’t reflect the intended use of the product. What is th point of putting 5 dollar CF cards in a 200 dollar device?

By: Daimaou

Daimaou — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:15:07 +0000

Cirdec > In Perfect world we would have unilimted budget and have the best tool to work with… but hey hold a sec… we are not living in a perfect world !

By: cynic

cynic — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:35:37 +0000

you had better have three really fast CF cards in order for this to be useful. if you actually watch the video, you’ll see that the array only gets 10MB/s in RAID 0 and 9 in RAID5. Now of course, he’s using three different cards, but is buying this adapter and 3 premium CF cards really better than buying two regular SATA drives which will give you better performance and more capacity?

By: paulpastie

paulpastie — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:15:03 +0000

excellent video….looks cool and useful

By: asd

asd — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:56:24 +0000

I have to protect the author. This was a very good review. If you want speed rating then go and check the manufacturers rating of you CF card and you got it.

By: Cirdec

Cirdec — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:34:28 +0000

Very poor way of reviewing! If you can’t do it well, dont.

Whenever someone wanna buy a Flash SSD, they will look for speed & MTBF. And since your review is unable to provide MTBF, then at least get a proper branded CF card with market leading speed like SanDisk Extreme Ducati 8GB, 45MB/s.

Having such a slow card and even have the cheek to mention the speed is limited by the slowest card. Unprofessional !
If you are review/promoting this DIY Drive, at least do it with the Max speed not the slowest.