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    64Gb CF card faster than your mechanical HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by deputc26, Mar 10, 2009.

  1. deputc26

    deputc26 Notebook Consultant

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    These CF devices aren't designed for HDD replacements and therefore don't need a lot of writing made to them. So to lower the price they don't feature wear levelling as good as SSDs do.

    And to correct you, there is no RAID 8. You RAID 0 EIGHT of the drives. :)
     
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    deputc26 Notebook Consultant

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    lol, yes. I hadn't thought of the wear levelling but still they should be good for a rather long time.

    I want a laptop with 4 CF slots now.
     
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    Mormegil83 I Love Lamp.

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    How much $$$? probably might as well get an SSD made for HDD replacement...
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    No wear leveling, but mine's been working fine for about six months now. No, it's not a terribly long time, but for those looking for an interim solution, it does work.

    ... and yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. I got my 4GB CF card for about $40 back in August; an X25-M has twenty times the capacity, more than five times the speed, and only eight times the cost. I'd say the CF card SSD solutions really aren't a terribly good value.
     
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    I think a the Intel M25X will still smoke 4 (or) 8 CF cards. especially if you compare cost.
     
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    Yeah Intel X-25M will smoke it but we're talking a CF card here, these things are not nearly as expensive to manufacture and thus have a lower potential price, I bet they cost less than a quarter of an SSD to manufacture and 64Gb is a useable amount of storage.

    Does no one else see potential here?

    I don't buy the "not designed for" argument. The fact is they were designed to store stuff and to be read and written to. I have a 5 year old CF card (128mb :)) that's still going strong from an old pda.

    On price, yes as the fastest CF in the world I'm sure it'll be exhorbitant initially but what counts is the potential for it to come down to a less than $50 price point because the cost of making it is so low.
     
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    you tell me the price and i'll tell you what i think... SSD's are also dropping in price almost by the day... there is really just no point when you can get something designed for what you propose, other than you got one hard drive bay and put a "small" SSD in there and still want some bonus storage...
     
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    Mormegil83 I Love Lamp.

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    I don't know much about the CF market but this was a link on ur page and dosn't look very promising...

    Edit: just saw the date was may of '04 so i don't know todays market... i'm guessing signifiacantly less

    Edit Edit: yeah much more reasonable now LOL
     
    Mormegil83, Mar 10, 2009
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