Hi All,

I am just messing with a couple of project machines at the moment... just seeing what hacks, mods etc. I can do...

I was looking at a IDE - Compact Flash adapter; my thinking is that this will not only reduce the loudness of the machine down but will improve the speed.

Does anyone have any advice or guidance, or experience with using Compact Flash instead of a hard drive, is it any better - quicker etc.?

I did worry that there maybe issues with limited re-writes on a flash drive, or is this a myth?

Thanks in advance.

Flash memory does have a limited number or write/erase cycles. Most of the newer devices have wear technology built in so we are talking on the order of 1,000,000 cycles. There are also solid state hard drive both IDE and SATA that will work too with bigger capacities then CF.

I have a couple of mini-itx PCs with solid state drives and they do seem to run faster. I would say it depends on your project.

now ,the cf card is very cheap and large capability , so you can use IDE to CF adapter or SATA to CF adapter instead of disk .cf card is also small and quiet .

CF cards are slower. My system has both a CF card to boot from and a normal 7200 RPM ide drive. There is quite a different in the boot up time and reading files from the disk. Drivers are cheaper, and unless you have a fanless system (no cpu fan, no power supply fan) you won't save much in the way of noise by using a CF card.

does your cf card and your adapter support DMA ?

the time boot system nearly with normal 7200 RPM ide drive.

if you havenot , you can buy some cheap from soarland.com .

From the energy consumption point of view, CF can save energy not like spinning hard drive. I think its better coz it is quiet but I can't tell if it is really quicker. Anyone ever had experience using CF as a hard drive, please post your comment.

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You should look at the thread/posts date. Response is not likely. You might get lucky. But you should not resurrect old threads.

bump

Nice 3 year old post.

Hi,

You resurrect a three year old thread with a comment then bump it. If you have a query and a need then create a new thread.

Do not bump this thread again!

FYI: I suggest that you look at 'How to Ask Questions the Smart Way' so in the future your queries provide information that will aid us in diagnosis of the problem or query. That way you will receive target response.

fhleung, I like that you are asking questions and that is good. Just consider making a new thread or post, we'll be happy to help.

I have played with them and there is a large group of users that tend to use the cf flashes. They don't normally use them as an energy saving deal, they tend to use them in smaller production embedded systems. Home user tend to use them just like you say. To save energy, more quiet, easy to swap and recover and other reasons. They work OK but when they fail they fail big time usually. CF's are pretty good at read/writes but they can't do that as long as a hard drive. SSD's are the way to take advantage of the best of both worlds.

If you want to, I encourage you to setup a sata or ide to cf card and run whatever you want for a few months to see.

First of all, thank you for the responds.

There are really countless of posts and users contribute help and opinions to this forum, they have build a strong foundation although I do not know how old exactly of this forum.

I would think apart from asking questions in an appropriate way, it is also good idea to utilize the resource like searching the title of the past posts by keywords. It is better than do nothing but starting a new thread and then wait of some responds irrelevant to the topic.

I not hijack others post but found this topic is really match so want to continue the discussion no matter how old this post was. I can not see what is the problem to continue the past posts that seem get you annoyed.

I know you like to offer help. There may be already many users got the same question so why not first trying the search facility available from this forum?

After reading your post, I will agree that there is an chance that I was in error asking you to create a new post.

It is only my humble opinion that you should create a new post even if similar to the OP and no such rule exists.

Having tried to answer questions properly and correctly on this forum and others I tend to get confused when one person starts a question and then years later another posts. While the OP an your question may seem similar they may not to the people trying to answer the question.

I do urge you to continue to ask and answer on this forum.

By the way, what is SSD ?

Hi,

Solid State Drive