Official Cool Tech Thread.....

[bubba]

here is one for the x-mas list

An R2-D2 DVD projector

http://www.nikkoamerica.com/nhe/dvd_pro ... video.html

[Alathald]

Awesome! Where can I get one? (one can dream)

[vicaphit]

Those have to be impossibly expensive!

Very cool though... "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, I need to watch Boondock Saints"

[bubba]

Read somewhere (Engadget I think) its around $2,500.

[vicaphit]

Just plain ol' projectors can run that high. I guess it would be a novelty for the star wars fan out there.

[Dreamcrusher]

If I had the cash that thing would be in my home as soon as possible.
Big Star Wars fan. So much so that I feel fortunate that the entire saga took place during my life time.

That droid is cool. I like conversation pieces like that.

[stopthekilling77]

Time to resurrect one of my first favorite LR threads with something I saw today and for some reason think is just too cool: the poor man's SSD!




This cheap little controller card takes 2 Compact Flash cards and can run them in RAID 1 or 0 for a decent SSD on the cheap!

SATA: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_ ... sahdcf.asp
IDE: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_ ... midecf.asp

Makes sense if you already have a compact flash card sitting around and you'd like to make your PC/laptop a bit zippier and can sacrifice capacity for speed

[Skippman]

Time to resurrect one of my first favorite LR threads with something I saw today and for some reason think is just too cool: the poor man's SSD!




This cheap little controller card takes 2 Compact Flash cards and can run them in RAID 1 or 0 for a decent SSD on the cheap!

SATA: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_ ... sahdcf.asp
IDE: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_ ... midecf.asp

Makes sense if you already have a compact flash card sitting around and you'd like to make your PC/laptop a bit zippier and can sacrifice capacity for speed

Didn't Addonics make SUPER cheap sound cards for a while there?

[Dragon_Cooler]

wow this is actually really bad ass!!! We need some to review!

[skier]

stk, do you know when this came out? i need to add it to the storage history thread

[stopthekilling77]

stk, do you know when this came out? i need to add it to the storage history thread

I'm quite unsure when this tech became available but I agree with Dragon_Cooler, it would be great to have some of these reviewed!
Maybe an email to the manufacturer would bring some answer?

[turnsoutitwas]

CF cards have very low read/write speeds btw

[stopthekilling77]

CF cards have very low read/write speeds btw

Thus RAID 0, not to mention their low power consumption numbers. Extended battery life is always good, no?

[turnsoutitwas]

CF cards have very low read/write speeds btw

Thus RAID 0, not to mention their low power consumption numbers. Extended battery life is always good, no?

Raid 0 will only give 2x ~40MB/sec (if you belive the rated speed the CF manufacturers provide & if this can provide 2x performance in RAID 0), todays HDD's can provide <80MB/Sec, some can give over 100MB/Sec
Also, CF cards are designed to work with small sequential read/writes (like photos), they will have terrible performance with multiple reads/writes and random read/writes. There's no cache or firmware optimisations like there is on hdd's or ssd's

Don't get me wrong it's a cool idea, but imo it won't provide the same performance as a good hdd or ssd.

[stopthekilling77]

CF cards have very low read/write speeds btw

Thus RAID 0, not to mention their low power consumption numbers. Extended battery life is always good, no?

Raid 0 will only give 2x ~40MB/sec (if you belive the rated speed the CF manufacturers provide & if this can provide 2x performance in RAID 0), todays HDD's can provide <80MB/Sec, some can give over 100MB/Sec
Also, CF cards are designed to work with small sequential read/writes (like photos), they will have terrible performance with multiple reads/writes and random read/writes. There's no cache or firmware optimisations like there is on hdd's or ssd's

Don't get me wrong it's a cool idea, but imo it won't provide the same performance as a good hdd or ssd.

Meant to be a short-term and cost-effective doorway into quiet SSD computing from what I can gather, which it does pretty well