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Make your own solid-state hard drive and save

crave.cnet.com — Sans Digital just released the CR2T CompactFlash card enclosure that might make this possible. The enclosure has the same form factor and works the same as a regular 2.5-inch SATA hard drive. It can hold two CF cards and can even configure them in either RAID 1 (mirroring) or nRAID (spanning), where the two CF cards are combined into one.

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  • diggduggjoe, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Wow! I think I just creamed my pants! I am already thinking of ways to use this puppy. RAID CF in a HD form factor. Again, wow!
  • JustAFarmBoy23, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0Nice. Not only are there no movable parts and more resistent to shock, but may also make file fragmentation a thing of the past. Random reads are much faster with flash.
  • ZeNiTH456, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1This sounds great, but still too pricey for me.

    Why no raid 0 though? That would boost the speed a little and provide twice the space.
    • ZeNiTH456, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1*Twice the space as a single CF card
  • TiMMY8765, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2if you just want to use one cf card per IDE channel, you can get one of these instead (only cost $4-5):
    http://www.pcengines.ch/cflash.htm
  • lokistuff, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0Why CF and not SDHC? Seems to be a cheaper option (at least in the UK)
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