"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:55:28 GMT, bok118@zonnet.nl (Gerard
> Bok) wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:11:09 -0000, "GT"
>><ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Just found this adapter:
>>>
>>>http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash...fide_fdd.shtml
>>>
>>>It lets you connect a compactFlash memory card to your IDE interface, to
>>>act
>>>as a permanent storage (hard disk). Anyone any experience of this
>>>technology
>>>and can comment on performance versus a 'normal' hard disk.
>>
>>Quick. Expensive. Fast. Size-limited.
>>Not nearly as lang lasting as even the cheapest harddisk :-)
>
> It would be more accurate to state, "lasts FAR longer than
> every hard drive, but lower number of write cycles".

But he goes on to say that compactFlash is 'typically good' for 10.000
cycles for high density MLC chips. I don't know how this relates to my
situation, but it doesn't sound very long to me!

Lets discuss a more useful example: If an 8GB compactFlash (20MB/s) unit
were used as a windows system drive (no swap file), maybe 1.5 boots per day
and 8 hours of windows use per day, how long do we all think it would
typically last? And how would its performance compare to a Western Digital
Caviar SE16, 250GB, 16MB cache, WD2500KS?