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Re:Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid ha... by ntoshev on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @02:04AM (#16569)
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://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_5

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Re:Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid ha... by aristus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @11:13AM (#16655)
The 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.

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