hargle
Veteran Member
But keep in mind that each sector on a CF card has a finite number of writes to it, and you could approach that point much quicker than you think. An SSD drive has built in algorithms to stop this from happening, it spreads the writes over the space evenly so you don't pummel a single sector to death, but rather use them all uniformly, this makes the death of an SSD drive extremely predictable, but inversely the death of a CF card is hard to predict.
So a CF drive is good for light use, especially in a DOS system, but I would not try to run something like Win9x on it. Eventually I intend to put a 512Mb CF card into my 5160.
too true, too true.
At a minimum, use a write-back disk cache on any CF device if you are going to be doing a lot of heavy writing. This is why I'm using normal hard drives in my machines and using CF devices as a means of external access to bulk transfers.