[geeks] A few interesting products...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Jonathan Groll <lists at groll.co.za>
>Date: 2008/06/22 Sun AM 10:27:24 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] A few interesting products...

>On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:31:48PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I just stumbled on to a company website (www.sansdigital.com) that lists a few 
>> interesting items:
>> 
>> CF to 2.5" SATA HD form-factor w/RAID[0] or w/o RAID[1]
><snip>
>> [0] http://www.sansdigital.com/compact-flash-storage/cs1t.html
>> [1] http://www.sansdigital.com/compact-flash-storage/cr2t.html
>
>I wonder how reliable or practical the CF adapter is as a substitute
>for a proper SSD? What about endurance? I assume 'proper' SSD's
>cone writes across thtain some volatile memory and do some sort of buffering to
>alleviate some of the problem?

I was under the impression that nearly all "modern" CF chips have some sort of internal write management to "balance" the writes to memory across the device...

Lionel