Century SDB24SD, a Do-it-yourself 2.5 ” Solid State Disk from SD cards

Surely you must have heard about SSD (Solid State Disks). Essentially those are storage units consisting of flash memory and have the advantage of very good access time, no moving parts, hence greater reliability and low power consumption. The downside? Price, for a gigabyte of flash storage you have to pay over 20 $, that’s 100 time more than what you have to pay for one gigabyte of magnetic storage.

Century is a producer that tries to make things easier on your pocket, so they’ve introduced the SDB25SD enclosure that can receive up to 4 Secure Digital memory cards, with a total capacity of 8 GB. Unfortunately the unit doesn’t support SDHC cards, so you’re limited to around 16 GB (in theory, because Century limits SDB25SD to just 8 GB),  not enough to install Windows Vista.

All 4 SD cards are enclosed in a 2.5″ format

SDB25SD has IDE standard interface, and can be used with pairs of two or four SD of same capacity. All those things are OK, if you don’t look at the price, which at 258.5 $ isn’t exactly cheap. Add the price of SD cards to that and we have a small capacity and expensive SSD.