SuperTalent bolsters SSD lineup with cheaper options
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 7th 2008 6:19AM
posted May 7th 2008 6:19AM
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posted May 7th 2008 6:19AM
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why cant the just add a load of 8GB micro sd cards together there only like $20 each for us and like $2 fir them
The obvious: microSDHC Class 6 isn't as fast as a good SSD.
There are plenty of options out that do exactly that. One good product is from Addonics the Quad-CF PCI Card.
Because Micro SD cards can only manage a couple of MB/sec and so would be useless as an SSD, unless you enjoy 10 minute boot times :)
Maybe he does like 10 minute boot times?
gave tomo's mom a 10 minute boot time.
10 min boot time? vista sp1 must really be faster
Because the language processing portion of our brains isn't as slow as yours to realize that you typo-ed "the" versus "they" and made up a type of tree known to you only as "fir them"
why not stripe the data on the microsd cards, raid-0 style?
When those capacities double and the prices halve I'm in.
Well, I'll be damned... an article about SSDs with actual pricing details!
who care about - its external anyway.....
Why do these have to be external? They look like they are internal anyway.
I tried the Addonics Quad-CF PCI card in two different systems. In both systems the RAID config app would lock up when trying to create a RAID set. I tried completely different UDMA CF cards; no luck. I didn't try a new Quad-CF card though: too peeved.
Then I tried making a RAID0 set using four Addonics CompactFlash-to-SATA cards; no luck. Despite the Addonics site saying the cards were the fastest CF adapters ever, my system would hang for like 5 minutes every time a card was accessed. I successfully created a RAID0 set but the access time delay was magnified by soooooo much I couldn't stand it.
The CompactFlash-RAID0 dream is really just a nightmare. I see people suggesting it in forums all the time but no one that's actually done it. DON'T TRY IT.