[LAU] Advice on hardwware components

[david]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:39:22PM -1000, david wrote:
>> Michael Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm interested in using a CompactFlash-to-SATA adapter, and booting
>> >from a CF card. Does anyone know what the speed/reliability would be
>>> like?
>> I think it would be pretty slow - my CF cards seem to give only 
>> 5-6MB/sec transfer. Even my slowest hard drives run a LOT faster than that.
> 
> There is something strange with compact flash on IDE on linux.  I've
> seen speed problems with several brands, but I'm going to talk
> specifically about kingston since I have detailed data sheets for their
> CF cards.  Standard cards get about 5MB/sec write speed.  This is about
> what speed they are supposed to get.  However, when I upgrade to "100x"
> cards, my speed actually starts going down and there are kernel errors
> printed about accessing the flash.  According to Kingston data sheets,
> these "100x" cards should be getting about 16MB/sec writes, which is
> vaguely in the ball park of IDE, and plenty adequate for most audio
> work.

I use a 50x CF from Kingston without any problems, but I don't write to
it from my computer. I only use the computer to read photos from it.

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