Walton Chaintech has launched an interesting product in the SSD space. The Apogee SSD Convertor takes up to two CompactFlash cards, in RAID 0 or RAID1 no less, and mounts them in a standard 2.5" form factor with SATA II connector. The end result is a pseudo SSD that offers "blazingly fast" transfer speeds.
Walton Chaintech has launched an interesting product in the SSD space. The Apogee SSD Convertor takes up to two CompactFlash cards, in RAID 0 or RAID1 no less, and mounts them in a standard 2.5" form factor with SATA II connector. The end result is a pseudo SSD that offers "blazingly fast" transfer speeds.
While a CF to SSD converter sounds more like a party trick perhaps than a practical application, Walton Chaintech claims the Apogee SSD Convertor gets 55MB/sec in a data read test when using their high-speed CF cards. That’s a bit faster than 5400RPM drives, but not even close to the latest SSDs. Even so, there’s probably a few applications where a drive bay like this would be useful.
Release date and pricing information have not yet been announced by the company.
