Addonics Revealing Sapphire, SSD RAIDs With CF Cards

Addonics Technologies Inc. announced the Sapphire 5-slot CFast drive and the Sapphire CF, a family of four flash drive solutions, which are tailored for creating your own SSD RAID array to improve storage performance.

It lowers power consumption and improves system reliability for application environments with frequent shocks and vibrations because SSDs have no moving parts unlike traditional HDDs. 

The Sapphire 5-slot is for CFast media. The Sapphire CF is for CF. Both offer a platform with USB 3.0 or eSATA interfaces for creating your own SSD storage solution using high-speed CFast cards.

The models with USB 3.0 connection allow to configure five CFast or CF cards to appear as independent drives. They can be set up as a high performance, fault tolerant RAID group or a large capacity SSD. The cards can be configured as RAID-0 (Striping), RAID1 (Mirroring), RAID-5 (Parity), RAID10 (Mirrored Striped), JBOD (Concatenation), Clone Mode (N-Way Mirror) using built-in hardware RAID, or as five individual drives without RAID.

The two models with eSATA connection only support connecting all 5 media to a single 6Gb eSATA port. The five media appears as five individual drives or can be formed as a RAID group using the RAID utility of the OS or the attached host connector. 

When connecting via eSATA, it can be used as a bootable device. It allow you to add or remove CFast cards from each slot without any special tools. These drives are OS independent, plug-and-play solutions with no drivers required.

Each of the products comes in two models, which range in price from $249 to $279.