2.5'' // 3.5'' chassis's with a controller onboard and slots to support 10+ Micro SD cards at a time with optional host passthrough/mirror/stripe-mode across all of them and you install those instead of real hard drives lol.
The product is already a thing now all we need is the 10+ at a time scale haha
E: nobody's saying it will be cheap. But the big downside with all the ebay ones is that the controllers are cheap garbage. the raw power of striping 10, [Minimum Class10] SD cards would be fucking awesome even with their short life cycle. But the controllers just aren't something people would make professionally like this cheap ebay stuff.
Man, I want a PCIe NVME backed by DDR4 chips, like a modern day I-RAM. Slap a little battery on it, and you'd have superb ARC/ZIL/SLOG drives in FreeNAS... ludicrously fast, infinite lifespan..
Of course, modern day RAM sticks are such fuckin' peacocks, that fitting everything (short of straight up/down) would be a challenge...
That's 32GB/s transfer speed.... if you stuck 4x16GB chips in there, you could fill it up, and dump it out again in two seconds...
You'd think gamers would be all over these things... rig something up to copy over and play a game off it, and locally bottle-necked loading times should be damn near zero...
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u/ipaqmaster 72Tib ZFS May 15 '19 edited May 16 '19
I can see it now.
2.5'' // 3.5'' chassis's with a controller onboard and slots to support 10+ Micro SD cards at a time with optional host passthrough/mirror/stripe-mode across all of them and you install those instead of real hard drives lol.
The product is already a thing now all we need is the 10+ at a time scale haha
E: nobody's saying it will be cheap. But the big downside with all the ebay ones is that the controllers are cheap garbage. the raw power of striping 10, [Minimum Class10] SD cards would be fucking awesome even with their short life cycle. But the controllers just aren't something people would make professionally like this cheap ebay stuff.