I found this on the web:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/19/the-do-it-yourself-ssd-adapter/
$285.00 Are they kidding?
However, this is what I had in mind but to be a viable product it would
need to be less than $100 and be able to access the cards in parallel to
get somewhere near the throughput of SATA 2 (300 MB/s IIUC).
I would think that this form factor runs up the price. A small module
that held 4 cards in vertical sockets that you could stick (literally)
somewhere in your case would be better.
I still haven't seen something that was a PCI card for flash (which
could possibly run faster than SATA 2 starting with 66MHz x 64 bits).
There is a problem there that there are three types of PCI to support
not to mention different widths in 2 of them (regular PCI would have to
be 64 bit to get the performance).
I don't know how long flash cards would last as swap (they do wear out,
but they would be easy to replace). I do see that they have ECC and
wear leveling which would help.
I also noted the i-RAM PCI card: $160. Also rather expensive. However
RAM would probably be better for swap. This card uses up to four DDR
memory modules. Unless there is some type of less expensive RAM to use
in such a card, I don't see the point since it would probably cost about
the same as adding more RAM to your system. Is there a cheaper type of
RAM to make something in the 2GB to 16GB range? Older types of memory
modules seem to be going up in price per bit. Probably isn't true of chips.
--
JRT
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