Sounds like it has great potential, though I don't know why you wouldn't be able to fit 4 cards in something that size. Maybe they'll make a 3.5" form factor that'll support that.
I was wondering about that too. I can only assume the size/complexity of the physical CF connectors and RAID electronics required to support 4 cards would have been too much for the first iteration of this product.
What I don't really understand is why Flash memory in the form of CF cards is cheap while flash in the form of SSDs is super expensive. This product is clearly designed to take advantage of large price gap between CF and SSD - why is there such a large price gap?
@nickster It's all about performance, CF can get you 15MB/s so raid0 that and you get 30MB/s (and about half that in write speeds). The high end SSD's get 120MB/s.
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Sounds like it has great potential, though I don't know why you wouldn't be able to fit 4 cards in something that size. Maybe they'll make a 3.5" form factor that'll support that.
I was wondering about that too. I can only assume the size/complexity of the physical CF connectors and RAID electronics required to support 4 cards would have been too much for the first iteration of this product.
What I don't really understand is why Flash memory in the form of CF cards is cheap while flash in the form of SSDs is super expensive. This product is clearly designed to take advantage of large price gap between CF and SSD - why is there such a large price gap?
@nickster
It's all about performance, CF can get you 15MB/s so raid0 that and you get 30MB/s (and about half that in write speeds). The high end SSD's get 120MB/s.