I just saw this article at the link:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/139438,psp-goodies-and-raided-sd-cards.aspx

I'm not sure it matters either way, but since I can post here, I'm bringing it to light.

Hope it helps!

CF cards slow? Yeah, right... These are the fastest cards on the market so far...

Dimdows can’t do USB RAID. Linux can.

The only card formats that are slow *and* expensive are the "proprietary" ones

It's a really nice idea, but RAIDing four MicroSD cards, which are not really built for speed, would not seem to me to be a very good route to high performance. I too would like to see these tested however.

"Overall, Photofast came out of nowhere and had all the goodies hardcore geeks are looking for. If this is their first offering, I can't wait to see what they come up with next."

Came out of nowhere? Try Akihabara.
This stuff has been available on shelves for ages now...

I've been waiting for something like the SD RAID forever -- though I was expecting it to take the form of multiple 1" magnetic disks in a 3.5" housing and be essentially disposable.

But... does this actually do what I've been waiting for? I'd like a self-contained SATA device that's smart enough on its own to know when it's failed and redundant enough that I can get the data off it when it's started blinking to alert me to swap it.

Without looking up the specs, this looks like it's more geared to striping for speed, and does not seem to have any idiot-proof indicators for failure that wouldn't rely on The Dangerous World of Software, e.g. SMART.

And good luck finding SLC SD cards, oh well... (But with eight, and some sort of reduced-wear buffered mirroring, potentially swapping MLC once a year wouldn't seem so bad!)

"If you are unfortunate enough to have cameras that require CF cards, you know the meaning of slow and expensive memory."

I think I must have missed something CF was just called slow... I have a 333X UDMA CF card that does 45mb/s, I've never seen an SD card do more then about 20mb/s... As for being expensive sure the fast ones are more expensive but it will take SD cards hand down for speed.

at least, nvidia now knows where to send the Russians...
(Charlie, you left your address in the pic!)

The Older Models CR9100/CR9000 didn't offer anything good, cost saving, or tremendous bang fer buck.

Can the Inq Put their mitts and do a bit of testing ?