Quad-CF PCI adapter RAID 0,1 and 10 capable

sea2stars · Post by **sea2stars** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:39 pm

Addonics Quad-CF PCI adapter

I just came across this today and I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, so I thought I'd post a link.

Edit - anotherlink.

And has anyone seen anything like this around for sale?

psiu · Post by **psiu** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:57 pm

Wow....that could be amazingly awesome, actually.

Get your OS install and apps set up and configured--make a backup image just because--set up data drives and/or swap drives...

Would be pretty sweet. Geeks.com has 1GB Kingston CF cards for 15.99

I should do this with my Myth[whateverversionofLinuxIcangettoworkright] box. Because I need more hardware problems to wrestle with.

lor77 · Post by **lor77** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:35 pm

Very nice product.
But what will be the average write,read speed,latency time and access rate with this adapter.
Will this depend from the CF cards being used?

lung · Post by **lung** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:37 pm

This isn't a real raid card. It is a bios assisted software raid. So short of it being made incorrectly it should be mostly dependant on the cf card and the pci card would be mostly irrelevant since it will all be done in software. If you consider the card a 4 port cf > ide adapter it still isn't that bad of a price although it could be smaller.

Isochroma · Post by **Isochroma** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:40 am

After much research I've found that this card requires CFs that are set to 'fixed disk' mode, if it is to be used for booting Windows, or used in an array. Fixed disk cards are rather hard to get, and Transcend's don't run in Ultra DMA, only multiword DMA mode 4.