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CR-9000 : Photofast CR-9000: DIY SSD Drive Hands-on

Posted on 2008-08-19 07:53:01  |  by: kei  |  Comments 3 Comments
Category:  PC   |  Tags: SSD, PHOTOFAST, SDHC, DIY, CR-9000, HANDS-ON

Photofast CR-9000: DIY SSD Drive Hands-on



Last week we introduced the latest DIY (Do It Yourself) SSD drive from Photofast, the CR-9000. Well, we got it hands on… but, unfortunately, we don’t have enough SD cards to fully test it (sorry...).

What we can tell you is, the CR-9000 with its red color is quite a stylish SSD drive, . Contrary to the other DIY SSD drive we tested here, at Akihabranews.com, this one seems to be stronger thanks to its metallic enclosure, and is also cheaper.

Notice that an IDE version is also available. However, the Photofast logo was written on the wrong side. If you plug it into your laptop, you won’t see the logo (OK, it's a minor detail…)

In case you forgot, this SSD Drive accepts up to six 32GB SDHC cards in RAID 0, providing a maximum of 192GB.
And According to the manufacturer, you can get a reading speed of 130MB/s, and a writing speed of 85MB/s.


Get it now on GeekStuff4U.com

PS: As of the last poll, almost 75% of you prefer a DIY SSD to a manufacturer’s SSD.

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Have you already bought a SSD Drive?
 Yes
9%
 No, too expensive
73%
 useless
5%
 Need to get new Computer first
14%

        

9% Yes

73% No, too expensive

5% useless

14% Need to get new Computer first


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Posted on Tue Aug 19, 06:42 by MemoryGuy
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Looking at photo, I can see a 8x SD card (256GB) is coming.



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Posted on Wed Aug 20, 03:05 by dummy
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Apparently no one has noticed the fact that, with RAID 0, you'll get a maximum of 32 GB, at the maximum read/write speeds (which are not that great by the way).
Besides, just check the prices of 6 32GB SD cards, plus the controller... frightening



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Posted on Thu Aug 21, 07:12 by dimmy
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Apparently RAID 0 gets confused with RAID 1 or something like that. 6x 32GB = 192GB, and RAID 0 means data is striped across all disks, in this case over all 6 SDHC cards.
If 1 cards fails, data is gone but at least it's replaceable. Other SSDs also use RAID 0 internally, and I bet you can't replace the memory chips.
6x 16GB is already quite nice and much cheaper. Wait until prices come down and easily upgrade to 6x 32GB :-p



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