14 DAY TRIAL // Hybrid devices have been developed and promoted many times, but there are other items, so-called adapters, that enable one sort of product to act as another, to some extent, this being the sort of IT product that Addonics just revealed.
There are many sort of storage solutions on today's market, with different form factors, capacities and speed ratings.
Depending on the combination of the above, they can end up in desktops, notebooks, video and photo cameras, consumer electronics, enterprise applications or just as extra, portable drives, etc.
Of course, sometime one might want to quickly pass data from one of the above to a device that isn't equipped to communicate with it.
In those cases, an adapter becomes very convenient, and it is this type of device that Addonics just delivered.
Dubbed CF / CFast Drive, it is a CF-to-SATA hard drive adapter that allows one to take one or more (up to six) six CF/CFast media and use them as a single drive.
A RAID configuration is utilized and, all in all, one could actually call this more of a SSD adapter than a HDD one, what with the nature of the CF cards (NAND Flash chips).
That said, any 5.35-inch drive bay should be able to hold this adapter in place and sales should already be selling, for a starting price of $135.
“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,” says the press release.
“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 -- all inside a 5 1/4" drive bay.”
Should one decide against the RAID configuration, all six CF or CFast cards can be recognized by the PC as different SSDs all on their own.