Compact flash 300x raid

[elec999]

Anyone saw the 300x compact flash cards. Wont these make a nice solid state drives in raid0. 300x150, 45mb read, not sure on the write.
Thanks

[thideras]

Anyone saw the 300x compact flash cards. Wont these make a nice solid state drives in raid0. 300x150, 45mb read, not sure on the write.
ThanksDo you have a link?

[elec999]

Heres for the cards
http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/index.html
Heres for the compact flash to ide
http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm
You can get these on ebay for $2-5.
Get two of them with two cards in raid0.Average $60 for 2gig version on ebay.
Thanks

[thideras]

I don't think it is worth it. Only 45mb read, write is prob a bit less. The cost per gb is crazy (for now).

[bing]

Flash write speed is really bad compared to it's read performance.

For "ordinary" flash memory, it will start to deteriorate once the write count reached few hundredth thousands write activities on every cell (bit), remember each byte consist of 8 bits. It has a finite number of erase-write cycles :)

So even it is cheap and let say as fast as harddsik, if you use it just like ordinary harddisk like OS, pagefile and etc, it will failed within months cause by those many-many write activities.

[thideras]

Flash write speed is really bad compared to it's read performance.

For "ordinary" flash memory, it will start to deteriorate once the write count reached few hundredth thousands write activities on every cell (bit), remember each byte consist of 8 bits. :)

So even it is cheap and let say as fast as harddsik, if you use it just like ordinary harddisk like OS, pagefile and etc, it will failed within months cause by those many-many write activities.I'm pretty sure there is flash memory out there that does not deteriorate like that (or over an extended time).

[bing]

That's why I put the word "ordinary" in quotes. :D

[thideras]

That's why I put the word "ordinary" in quotes. :DAh...missed that...:bday: