Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/12/18 00:33, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> sata ssds that are even faster are possible but command a substantial >> price premium... > > In the 5501, it looks like the SATA connector is bridged to the same > IDE interface as the CF card.
It is. Which is why you see sata devices as ide drives... The little marvell bridge is under the footprint of the cf socket. The fact remains that you can buy a sata ssd that faster than any sata hard-disk you can buy presently while maintaining the attractive read-service times that you expect from flash memory... 2.5" ssd pcb's have an awful lot of real-estate for surface mounting chips compared to CF cards which are in turn much more generous than the conventional small consumer flash formats at this point. really fast ssds are probably not real useful on the context of soekris devices but over the course of the next year you should see them drop dramatically in price and devices in the 8-32GB range are already attractive for some applications though the cost per bit is at least an order of magnitude higher than hard-disks still. Leveraging that higher throughput in a fairly embedded systems is another matter. The soekris 48xx and 55xx are towards the lower end of the embedded network computers I deal with on a regular basis with some mips devices still further below that and some multicore xeon x86 boxes above them. the nice thing about the soekris is I can run the code meant for the big box on it with a corresponding decrease in cost and performance, going lower end means more work. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
