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Does SATA / CF have any advantage over a pack of USB drives? I am not sure what out-of-the-box solution can you use to read/write packs of flash memory in para
by ntoshev 20y ago
Does SATA / CF have any advantage over a pack of USB drives?
I am not sure what out-of-the-box solution can you use to read/write packs of flash memory in parallel, but I'm pretty sure there exists something (you could do it on the application level as well).
Edit: USB RAID-0 array benchmarks here:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash.ars/8 http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash.ars/8
http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_5 http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_5
- aristus 20y agoThe advantage is that you're not going through the USB bus. The spec says 480Mbit but in real life it's much much lower. Does your rackmount server have quality USB2.0 (heh) or the cheapest 1.1 crap the manufacturer can find (likely)? On the other hand I don't have hard numbers, just some bonnie tests on random flash sticks I had lying around. Check out the newer USB sticks that are "Readyboost Ready", such as Corsair. They might be quick enough.