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I am making some progress ... I got some emulator is a very primitive stage ... however, I am not getting the data yet from the hardware hack.  I'll keep everyone posted here on further progress.

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Enjoy!

Hi this is my first post on the topic.  I am a software engineer and have some exposure with hardware as well.  I certainly believe that CF-SSD cannot be done in any straight way.  The experiment will need some external processor that is good enough to simulate CF interface for camera, get data from camera, buffer it up in memory, and then write is to SSD through SATA/USB3/TB port.  I am willing to invest some time on this line.  However, I'll need a little help for CF interface.  I have previously worked on buffered writing and controlling of SATA interfaces, but have never played with CF interface.  If anyone is aware of CF interface, please get in touch with me at the earliest.

The idea is to create a fake/simulated CF interface that will go to camera and will connect to processor (for now, I'll use my laptop) through USB3/TB.  There will be a running program that will control the CF simulation and data coming from camera.  This program will also write explicitly to SSD through SATA.  Logically speaking the write speed can be achieved up to 350MB/s that should be good enough for 30fps 4K RAW.  But all of this is just a theory as of now.

As mentioned earlier, I'll use my laptop as "middle-man", but once I am able to achieve some results, I can move to some other small foot-print boards like Intel Minnowboard etc.  But that's longer term plan.

On the side, I really do not want to fire up any debate.  If you have to say anything about this, just send me the private message.  I'll keep the thread updated with my progress.