Do It Yourself SSD Sata Drive : DIY SSD Drive Test : a RAID5 HDD with 3 Compact Flash

Posted on Thu May 22, 04:34 by Cirdec, Tech Support, Singapore
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Very poor way of reviewing! If you can't do it well, dont.

Whenever someone wanna buy a Flash SSD, they will look for speed & MTBF. And since your review is unable to provide MTBF, then at least get a proper branded CF card with market leading speed like SanDisk Extreme Ducati 8GB, 45MB/s.

Having such a slow card and even have the cheek to mention the speed is limited by the slowest card. Unprofessional !
If you are review/promoting this DIY Drive, at least do it with the Max speed not the slowest.

Posted on Thu May 22, 06:56 by asd
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I have to protect the author. This was a very good review. If you want speed rating then go and check the manufacturers rating of you CF card and you got it.

Posted on Thu May 22, 02:15 by paulpastie
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excellent video....looks cool and useful

Posted on Thu May 22, 04:35 by cynic
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you had better have three really fast CF cards in order for this to be useful. if you actually watch the video, you'll see that the array only gets 10MB/s in RAID 0 and 9 in RAID5. Now of course, he's using three different cards, but is buying this adapter and 3 premium CF cards really better than buying two regular SATA drives which will give you better performance and more capacity?

Posted on Thu May 22, 06:15 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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Cirdec > In Perfect world we would have unilimted budget and have the best tool to work with... but hey hold a sec... we are not living in a perfect world !

Posted on Thu May 22, 11:16 by _
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The whole point of raid (0 and 5) is to get increased speed over one drive. The only reason this would be useful is if it was used with high speed CF card. The first poster is right, this review is simply not helpful as it doesn't reflect the intended use of the product. What is th point of putting 5 dollar CF cards in a 200 dollar device?

Posted on Sun May 25, 04:42 by pdruten, ICT coordinator, Netherlands
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Great demo!
Good examples, nice filming!
Keep up the good work...

Paul van Druten

Posted on Mon May 26, 10:59 by Raymo, Student, Cambs UK
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I would like to know the name of the second song,

also if you were to have 2 sets of these can you raid 0 them using another raid controller?

also can i request boot up times using better CF ratings