Were those on the ibmZ50 workpad?
I wonder if the z50 has a thru-put max that makes certain 
high speed CF non-relavant.

> > Anyone have experience with different speeds of CF?
> > Is it noticable?
> 
> yeah; we just built a few linux servers here with CF disks for storage.
> (they're clustered spam/virus-scanners or load balancers, so no substantial
> amount of disk or persistent store needed).
> 
> Kingston CF disks are slow and buggy. we got filesystem corruption with the
> 512MB ones. 
> 
> Simpletech CF disks cost a few dollars more; but we haven't had any
> reliability problems, and they feel like they're running as fast as a
> magnetic disk. feel much better than the kingstons, according to the guy
> who's developing these systems.
> 
> Lexar is supposed to be the best brand. they make a '24X' CF disk (24x
> compared to what, I don't know). expensive, but reliable and fast.
> 

A lexar ad said: 1x=150KB/sec

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