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Have some good sized Compact Flash cards laying around that you don't use anymore? Would you like to experience trying out the latest computer speed craze? Well for about $50.00, a Addonics Quad CF PCI adapter and a couple of Compact Flash cards you could  have a taste of solid state speed and quiet for your data storage source. This adapter will accept any mixture of up to 4 cards.

 

The adapter includes built-in firmware, which allows the four CF cards to be configured as one large volume, four individual drives, or configured for redundancy with support for RAID 0 (Striped), RAID 1 (Mirrored) and RAID 10 (Mirrored Striped). With the increased capacity and lowering costs of flash media, replacing the hard drive with CF as a boot drive is now a viable alternative because CF offers lower power consumption and no moving parts. Moreover, the device supports not only CF Type I, but also the Type II and MicroDrive formats. (via Gizmo Watch)

Will I run out and try this out probably not. Even though visions of how I could build an ultra quiet solid state machine based on this card as a hard drive source and the gOS Developer Board shown to the right?

With the latest technology within the 1.5GHz VIA C7-D processor, an ultra power efficient processor based on the 'Esther' core that includes support for the efficient VIA V4 bus and an extensive feature set within the StepAhead™ Technology Suite. The VIA C7-D processor is also the world's first carbon free processor.

The VIA pc2500 Platform boasts the world-beating power efficiency and hardware security of the advanced VIA C7-D processor and the rich digital media feature set and extended connectivity of the VIA CN700 chipset to provide a high performance yet ultra energy efficient computing platform. Fully compatible with Microsoft® Windows® XP/2K/CE and Linux operating systems, the VIA pc2500 Platform combines next generation silicon with its excellent thermal and physical properties and market-leading power, security and performance characteristics to deliver all the necessary performance for productivity, education and entertainment. (via ClubIT.com)

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