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[[Image:SSD SATA 2,5.jpeg|thumb|trying the camera with external SATA SSD]]

Just tried an external SATA 2,5" SSD from Intel.

Everything work perfectly and the SSD can be powered by the camera with a custom USB to SATA-power cable. Check the pinouts here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA 

More information about those SSD can be found on : http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm

 # hdparm -i /dev/hda
 /dev/hda:
 Model=INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GN, FwRev=045C8610, SerialNo=CVEM852500K5080DGN
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=(0) unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0mdma1*mdma2
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D rev.1:  ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 ATA/ATAPI-7
 * current active mode

and we measured about 18MB/sec write speed (limited by the ETRAX FS CPU), /dev/circbuf is ~19MB pseudo file in the camera: 
 # time dd if=/dev/circbuf of=/var/hdd/test1.dd bs=1M
 18+1 records in
 18+1 records out
 real    0m 1.07s
 user    0m 0.01s
 sys     0m 1.01s