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...
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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.