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

Posted on 2008-06-13 00:12:47  |  by: D.M  |  Reader Comments 8 Comments
Tags: HDD, RACK, STAGE, ESATA, SATA, SSD, CF, COMPACT FLASH

Product Name: Do It Yourself SSD Sata Drive
Company: GS4U
Price: € 122

DIY SSD Drive Test: a RAID5 HDD with 3 Compact Flash

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Many say that SSDs are the future of mobile computing and notebooks, but unfortunately they are still pretty expensive, so what about making one yourself? Many had the idea of doing so but too few were able to make it happen, until today. Thanks to Century and GeekStuff4U.com you will be now able to build up your very own SATA SSD thanks to 3 CF, the very same CF that can buy found in many DSLRs.



Even if today we will talk about the SATA version, keep in mind that an IDE version is also available and that both these SSD support either RAID 0 or 5.

Depending of your needs or your budget, you will either have the choice to use 1, 2 or 3 CF at the same time, but remember that 3 CF are needed for a RAID 5 configuration. Our photo gallery and video below will show you the 2 different settings with 3 CF in RAID 0 then RAID 5.

As you will see you do not need, but it is highly recommended and this for performances issues, to use 3 identical CFs in either speed or capacity. Keep in mind that the maximum speed of your all setting will be the maximum speed offered by your slowest CF.

Plus:
Make a cheaper SSD
Raid 5 !
Work with all CF

Minus:
Price if we considerate the DIY SSD + quality/fast CF

Conclusion:
Well images worth a 1000 words so just relax and watch our video, and if you are interested, these DIY SDDs are available here at GeekStuff4U.com

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Posted on Sat Jun 14, 12:50 by CrazyCCA
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Very interesting this article about the SSD. This is the future of the hardware storage.



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Posted on Sun Jun 22, 03:11 by steviesteveo, Student, UK
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That's totally fascinating. It's good to see solid state memory used in a way that takes advantage of the smaller physical size like this instead of bulking out memory chips so they're the size of a regular drive. This puts three drives into the space of one and lets you get very compact raid.

That said, to be very petty I couldn't clearly read all the labels on your photos because of the narrow depth of field. If you wouldn't mind using a slightly higher f/ number for future this will make tracking down components by serial number easier.



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Posted on Thu Jun 26, 09:02 by Yuriy, San Francisco, CA
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which speed you got?



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Posted on Wed Jul 09, 03:09 by anonymouscoward, Singapore
Home Page: http://blog.limkopi.org
the price is still crazy



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Posted on Fri Jul 25, 03:18 by pcnoob, unemployed, wonderland
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waste of time and money

just get an SSD drive, bigger - faster - cheaper - ready to use

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?nm_mc=AFC-TechBargains&cm_mmc=AFC-TechBargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA&Item=N82E16820227344



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Posted on Wed Aug 13, 10:19 by Wolfgang, High School Student, New Athens, Illinois, USA
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I Would rather buy a single or dual CF to SATA adapter ($35-$80 from Addonics respectively) and spend the saved money on bigger, faster (266x would work for Linux distros) and just use the drive planning on it failing (like with any flash option).



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Posted on Sun Oct 12, 11:01 by cyberstanman, IT student, CA, USA
Home Page: http://free-credit-reports-annual.com
not a bad idea for now. i look forward to the day when all storage is solid state, AND with much longer lifespan than the ones we have now.



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Posted on Sat Nov 22, 12:47 by Anonymous2, student
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May I ask what the song is in the background?



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