Re: CF Vendors

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:07:00PM -0700, Erik Berls wrote:
> I'm swapping out the hard drives in my Cobalt Raq2's with CF cards in
> order to make them a little cooler, and a little quieter.   I was
> browsing through Newegg and came across a vendor that was selling CF
> cards that were listed as 266x, 40MB/s.  The vendor is A-DATA.
> 
> Anyone have any experience with them?  None of the other big names
> (SanDisk, Kingston) had anything available above 133x.

The problem with using CF cards is the sector erase time, and the limited
number of erase cycles allowed.
(So you need all the noatime, nodevmtime mount options).

Even quoted write speeds are unlikely to allow for the erase!

        David

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