Addonics Device With Six CF or CFast Cards in 5.25-Inch Bay

Addonics Technologies Inc. announced the CF/CFast Drive, which lets create a solid state drive with a SATA interface by using any CF card or a high speed CFast card.

             CF/CFast Drive installed 5.25-Inch bay

The CF/CFast Drive can be installed into a standard 5 1/4" drive bay of a desktop or rack mounted system to accommodate up to six CF/CFast media. The media can be configured as six independent drives or combined into a RAID group to form a large capacity, high performing SSD.

Any of the six media slots can be used as an internal storage application so that the media cannot be accessible from outside the system. This flexibility enables the CF/CFast drive to be used as a bootable storage device, as six removable drives or as a combination of a boot drive and removable storage.

The six media slots in CF/CFast drive are customizable. The CF or CFast media can be mixed and matched and any of the slots can be converted into an internal flash drive slot to prevent the media from being accessible outside the system.

Four models are available. One is for CF media and the other for CFast media. The other two have a built-in hardware port multiplier for either CF or CFast, which supports RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, JBOD, Clone Mode (N-Way Mirror) or individual drives.

Prices range from $135-$199.

The company also sells Addonics-brand CFast media in 4-8-16-32 MB capacities.