Cheap and fast SSD hack?

SSD is the future, but too expensive. Typically you need to shell out around $1000 for around 64Gb.But then I wondered, how about using traditional Flash cards together with SATA interfaces in a RAID0 setup?Traditional Flash cards are quite slow, but relatively cheap. put enough together in RAID0 and you should still get decent speed?Anyone tried this?Cheap and fast SSD hack?
[QUOTE=''Blue_Tomato'']SSD is the future, but too expensive. Typically you need to shell out around $1000 for around 64Gb.But then I wondered, how about using traditional Flash cards together with SATA interfaces in a RAID0 setup?Traditional Flash cards are quite slow, but relatively cheap. put enough together in RAID0 and you should still get decent speed?Anyone tried this?[/QUOTE]Flash can't take all the writing that is needed to run an OS like Windows, you'll kill the memory sooner then later.Cheap and fast SSD hack?
[QUOTE=''Krall''][QUOTE=''Blue_Tomato''] SSD is the future, but too expensive. Typically you need to shell out around $1000 for around 64Gb.But then I wondered, how about using traditional Flash cards together with SATA interfaces in a RAID0 setup?Traditional Flash cards are quite slow, but relatively cheap. put enough together in RAID0 and you should still get decent speed?Anyone tried this?[/QUOTE]Flash can't take all the writing that is needed to run an OS like Windows, you'll kill the memory sooner then later.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=''Krall''][QUOTE=''Blue_Tomato''] SSD is the future, but too expensive. Typically you need to shell out around $1000 for around 64Gb.But then I wondered, how about using traditional Flash cards together with SATA interfaces in a RAID0 setup?Traditional Flash cards are quite slow, but relatively cheap. put enough together in RAID0 and you should still get decent speed?Anyone tried this?[/QUOTE]Flash can't take all the writing that is needed to run an OS like Windows, you'll kill the memory sooner then later.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=''Krall''][QUOTE=''Blue_Tomato''] SSD is the future, but too expensive. Typically you need to shell out around $1000 for around 64Gb.But then I wondered, how about using traditional Flash cards together with SATA interfaces in a RAID0 setup?Traditional Flash cards are quite slow, but relatively cheap. put enough together in RAID0 and you should still get decent speed?Anyone tried this?[/QUOTE]Flash can't take all the writing that is needed to run an OS like Windows, you'll kill the memory sooner then later.[/QUOTE] Dont try it because it wont work and might destroy at most