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CompactFlash adapter speeds up four microSD cards using RAID-0
The PhotoFast CR-7200 looks like an ordinary CompactFlash (CF) card, but it's really a holder for those tiny microSD cards. The remarkable thing about it is, you can put four 16GB microSDHC cards inside, resulting in 64GB of flash storage, lashed together in a super-fast RAID-0 configuration.
This RAID-controlling mutha will be available next month for about $30. There's also a version that adapts a single SD card to CompactFlash, as well as a model that adapts a single microSD card to CompactFlash, too. Both of those will sell for about $25.
For those of us using CF-card-packing cameras such as the Nikon D300 or D3, this could give us a great way to use some of those extra microSD cards we have lying around, ganging together up to four of them for extra speed. Neat.
PhotoFast, via Akhihabara News
By kingblazi at 1:44 PM ON 06/25/09
This looks pretty cool., wondering if the version that handles SD cards also does 4 or 1?
By Dave.T at 3:32 PM ON 06/25/09
that 7200 model looks like a CF-3. Make sure your device can handle that thickness. My camera maxes out with a CF2 thickness card.
By Dave.T at 3:46 PM ON 06/25/09
I just looked a little closer at the picture. It's a CF-2 thickness.
By wildember at 5:07 PM ON 06/25/09
Don't think that the regular sized SD slots will physically have enough room for 4x1 slots. Looks like the CR-7000 has one adapter for SDHC. I doubt in a CF2 format there would be enough room to fit another SD card and the leads underneath the first but that would be cool with SDHC prices plummetting.
By smith134 at 11:35 PM ON 06/25/09
It's really a cool device. You can mixing all of them. RAID 0 combines them together, so the full capacity is 16x4=64gb. RAID 1 is mirroring, which provides data redundancy at the cost of less space.
By sar44gent at 1:12 PM ON 06/26/09
nobody copy my idea, but how cool would it be to convert something like a micro sd to an P2 card so i can shoot it on my HD Camera?
By CJW at 1:47 PM ON 06/26/09
I guess RAID 5 would be impractical. I wonder if it actually stripes the cards or if it just fills them sequentially? There'd be no speed increase for the latter, but it would still allow for capacity.
By RAID at 4:55 PM ON 06/26/09
RAID 0 is striping
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