14 DAY TRIAL // CFast cards usually end up being used by high-end video recording devices or other such things, but if you have several of them lying about, you might be interested in the two items that Addonics has launched just now.
Called Sapphire 5-slot CFast drive and the Sapphire CF, they let you make SSDs out of two, three, four or five NAND Flash memory cards.
The Sapphire 5-slot CFast drive supports CFast media and configures the cards in RAID. The Sapphire CF is similar, but supports CompactFlash cards instead.
The USB 3.0 or eSATA interface is used to communicate with a PC. So I suppose there are four drives: a pair with eSATA and a pair with USB 3.0.
Only the USB 3.0 models support RAID though. The eSATA model does only use one port, but all cards appear as individual drives, although a RAID utility can be used to format them via the PC OS, or the attached host controller. On the flip side, the eSATA models can be used as bootable devices.
Sapphire's products ship for $249 / €249 to $279 / €279.