http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/ Engadget Comments for DIY SSD adapter takes 6 SDHC cards, the cake http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/You can't use cards that you actually need for your camera, these will have to be dedicated cards as removing one will corrupt the RAID 0 volume. It's a very obvious solution and about time someone did it with decent speeds.]]>Aug 11th 2008 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
Also, to me, i don't see raid 0 improving performance as much as it did for disk base hard drives. ]]>Aug 11th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/They took 6 memory cards that have a maximum of 30 MB/s and they RAIDed them together to achieve over 100 MB/s.]]>Aug 11th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
You are not original. We've all had this idea.]]>Aug 11th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/I think I just got stupider :)]]>Aug 11th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Then you can become a patent troll and sue them!


Besides your computer was not hacked for your "SSD Solutions" but for your rare gay bondage port archive. :p]]>Aug 11th 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Because you know, Engadget, if SD cards prices go down at the same pace they've been going for years, one sure thing is that these adapters will become *more and more* attractive.
]]>Aug 11th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 13th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
On the other hand, blu-ray...]]>Aug 11th 2008 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
If you want to protect your data, you could either back it up or run another one in RAID 1 to mirror it. Or the best solution, RAID 1 plus a regular schedule of backups.]]>Aug 11th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/If you are on the move and one of the SDHC cards starts to fail then your laptop is bricked.
You must find the time to find out which cards has failed, restore or reinstall the OS.

Safer RAID should indicate that one SDHC card has failed and that it would really be a good idea to backup your data asap.]]>Aug 11th 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
In RAID 0, the 0 stands for how many files you'll get back if something goes wrong.]]>Aug 11th 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Besides, these things seem very dangerous.]]>Aug 11th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
Let's think about it again:
Flash memory is very slow as we all know. These high speeds can only be gained by setting up RAID 0 over all cards. The more the merrier, that's the great plus about RAID 0, speed increases the more volumes participate. The great minus, if one volume fails all data is gone.
Now what's the conclusion? Other flash based SSDs work with RAID 0 too!! How else could they achieve acceptable speed rates? But the manufacturers don't tell that, cause everyone would back away from their products.
If one flash chip fails, the data's gone on ANY flash based SSD - except if it's one that features RAID 5 or RAID 1, but I haven't heard of that yet.
So what are you gonna do? You can't replace the dead chip on a normal SSDs. With the adapter I can replace the broken card. Or resize my SSD whenever SDHC prices are in free fall again. And SATA 3Gbps interface is nice, I'd hate to have an IDE based one.
]]>Aug 15th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
Or maybe an SD card adapter with 3 micro-SD slots for using 1G micro-SD cards would be enought for important data to be safe and removable/replacable, etc;)

Maybe 2 micro-SD in mirror (replacable from the outside with the SD adapter fited in) would be enought and easy implemented hardware mirror inside the adapter.

Or a small USB device for this propose.]]>Aug 11th 2008 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
But of course, we could always find cheaper SD cards.]]>Aug 11th 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/but hey, if you want 500GB SSD for $650 that totally up to you :)]]>Aug 11th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
Let us know how long the system can perform random read / writes before it crashes. :)]]>Aug 11th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/Aug 11th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
I would rather have the adapter shown up as a bunch of different drives, soft-raid is just as fast and allows for better reliability.]]>Aug 11th 2008 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/
1. Actual 64GB SSD drive, the OCZ Core for $240 after rebate on Newegg.
2. DIY adapter plus 6 SD cards, 48GB for $270.

I think this adapter is about a year too late.]]>Aug 11th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/11/diy-ssd-adapter-takes-6-sdhc-cards-the-cake/am doing a lot of tech support, great for diagnostics i think
gonna install a bunch of rescue tools and make it read-only - that's the first time i actually use the lock switch on my mem cards, haha!]]>Aug 19th 2008 3:12PM