Interesting use for CF cards

link here.

I came across this looking for an express card for my external drives.

It's a high speed mirrored (RAID 1) CF reader/writer on a PCI Express Slot 34 Card.

Effectively; it's a (highly portable and easily removed) mirrored SSD drive alternative. Good way to wear out a CF card but interesting alternative.

For some strange reason; I'm just drawn to dream up uses for such a thing. Sorry; having trouble ... unless you're some engineer who wants to work on a plane but has to lock up the info between bathroom breaks and cannot afford risking data loss due to failure.

The reader itself, because it's on a bus that's 5 times faster than the typical USB 2.0 card reader (2.5Gb/s), is worth having. The RAID 1 part is just a little off-the-wall.

Copy data from a camera CF via USB reader into dual CF cards for data reduncancy, before erasing and reusing the CF in the camera?!

Wilt wrote in post #10632930
Copy data from a camera CF via USB reader into dual CF cards for data reduncancy, before erasing and reusing the CF in the camera?!

Hmmm. And if the RAID-1 sync goes the wrong direction?

Thanks for playing.

I suppose it would be nice to copy 2 cards at once. Start copy, go get coffee, return and both are done. Of course; (theoretically) 5x faster doesn't hurt.