Up to 64GB CompactFlash storage in a super-fast RAID-0 configuration

[AlfredoArriaga]

http://dvice.com/assets_c/2009/06/cf_adapters_raid0-thumb-550x487-19896.jpg

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 SD cards to CompactFlash, as well as a model that that's adapts a single microSD card to CompactFlash, too. Both of those will sell for about $25.

For those of us using the CF-only 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.

You can buy it now here: http://www.photofast.co.jp/index_adapter.html

Will it work on the RED camera!???? Comments??

[Steve Freebairn]

http://dvice.com/assets_c/2009/06/cf_adapters_raid0-thumb-550x487-19896.jpg

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 SD cards to CompactFlash, as well as a model that that's adapts a single microSD card to CompactFlash, too. Both of those will sell for about $25.

For those of us using the CF-only 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.

You can buy it now here: http://www.photofast.co.jp/index_adapter.html

Will it work on the RED camera!???? Comments??


It'd be really interesting to see a test of how fast this thing is. It's like a CF version of P2.

[Andrew Waite]

in theory this should work. It will be interesting to see. Is there a website were we can learn more?

[Kwan Khan]

Interesting

[Stefan Christou]

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.digiklix.de/2009/03/20/photofast-cr-7200-cf-adapter-fuer-sd-sdhc-speicherkarten-mit-raid-system/&ei=4cBDSt-hGdWLjAfFlvGRDw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DPhotoFast%2BCR-7200%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26rl s%3Den

80MBS read. 40 write

[Joe G.]

"80MBS read. 40 write "

Is that sustained? Sounds like a good solution.

[Dominic Jones]

They also claim to have a 32B CF card proper that can write 80MB/s. Very much doubt that's sustained, but still - it would have to fall way below that to fail for use with the R1, surely?

Interesting find...
Dom.

[Oliver Skibbe]

Photofast products at CeBIT 2009 --> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1051318/raided-sd-cards-psp-goodies

Some technical data for CR-7200 cards can be found here --> http://shop.maxxxware.de/Speicherkarten_cr-7200_64gb.html

[James Webb]

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[Tom Lowe]

Check this out:

http://ep.yimg.com/ip/I/yhst-71319492210787_2060_351897

http://www.ptiglobalusa.com/prcfca66.html

They used to have a preview image of a 100GB 667x!!!! I might have to call them to find out what happened to that 100GB card. They took it off their website about 5 days ago.

[Obin Olson]

does anyone know if any of the cards other then RED will work at full speed?