Re: Compact flash speed

["Christer O. Andersson" <christer%a-son.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:02:50PM -0500, Michael Wileman wrote:
> Has anyone compared these two types to see if there is a speed 
> difference when used in the Jornada CF slot? What's the maximum 
> speed the Jornada will read and write? Also, is the whole Ultra II 
> brand just marketing, or is there a real difference in the hardware?

I have a 1 GB Extreme III and a 256 MB standard, maybe I could test
those?

What would be a good test, something like
time dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt
and
time dd if=file.txt of=/dev/null perhaps?

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Christer O. Andersson
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