Interesting. Hmmmm How about a 8 drive compact flash raid-0 array?

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited September 2004 in Hardware
http://www.vme.com.au/ideadapters.htm

It lets you use compact flash cards from a ide connector. Sorta like a SSD but they rewrite a limited number of times but the seek times off the ide controller are like 2ms with compact flash and that have 4gb flash cards coming soon.

hmmmmm what about 8 of these in raid-0 on a 4 port raid ide raid controller for a unreal 36gb raid array to serve files that had to be fast as all heck but didn't change much? certain static database tables come yo mind.

I love toys

Tex

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    That sounds awesome. I'm not seeing where there is a limited amount of writes/rewrites though.... I thought there was no such limitation with flash media?
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited September 2004
    No they claim like 300,000 "erases" which for most purposes may seem like enough but... Lets say you tried to put windows on with its swapfile. You could kill it in a matter of hours.

    tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited September 2004
    Hmmmmm again. (grin) Seems the same company has " Industrial Grade " compact flash cards that are rated at over two million errases per sector/block.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited September 2004
    Ill take about a dozen of the 2gig ide flash drives. Load all our images onto them then just plug it in and image the drives in the system...
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