Need a bigger CF Card?

It might be useful in so far as SD cards are much cheaper than CF.
 
Not so sure about this.

"This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once"

Is that such a good idea, more writing more chance for something to go wrong? Dont know.
 
Can you set them up so they mirror each other for redundancy? Now that I would buy.
 
I'm not so sure about this either. What kind of raid processor can you fit into such a small package an run off the trickle of power that is provided to the CF card? I don't imagine this to be fast at all.

As for setting it up for mirroring, bwana, the 1D series can do that already :)
 
These seem to be the details on the card :

Ordering
CR-7200 coming in late July [2009]
Flash support
microSD Card 256MB-2GB / microSDHC card 4GB-16GB
Insert a microSD card to 4 cards simultaneously
Interface
CF Type II standard compliant
Voltage
3V-5V
Dimensions
42.8mmx36mmx5mm
Warranty
3 months warranty
Supported OS
WindowsVista / WindowsXP / Windows2000 / Mac OSX
Accessories
Warranty (package)
Other
  • 4 microSD cards can be inserted microSD to CF adapter
    Built-in RAID controller cards on insert zero 4
  • Load up to 80MB / s, Write up to 40MB / s and the microSD1 only works with cards accepted
  • Different combinations of capacity is not used.
  • MicroSD Please use the manufacturer's capacity.
  • The in-memory data is not guaranteed Important data is always backed up please MicroSD microSDHC Card. This product is not included
  • When using new microSD microSDHC card reader with a Please format
  • microSD If you move or delete the data stored in the CR-7200 to insert a microSD microSDHC while, Please d o connect to a PC via a card reader
Click to expand...
 
No hardware device/accessory that requires a specific OS on my computer will find itself on my shopping list. WTF?

Anyway, if you want serious space, why not just shoot tethered or get one of these?
 
Well its interesting enough that it can be done. I doubt this is any bit useful however. I'm sure UDMA 300x cards outdo these in both performance and price. A simple CF-SD to use the eye-Fi is probably the most I would go for.

Also if you are tech-savy to understand raid, you're tech-savy enough to move images onto another memory device. I don't see the need for 64GB on ONE card. It introduces too much risk. One of those SDHCs go bad and you loose 4000+ pics....
 
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