CF is very slow when compared to SSD, even the very fast CFs are in the
100MB/S range, many SSDs are around 400MB/S.
The Sandisk Extreme Pro CF with 90MB/S is around $100, while at similar
price you get a 128G SSD and four time faster.
C.H.Ling
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From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <<SNIP>>
>
> This discussion about SSDs is interesting, but the formal ones are
> just a bit too expensive to get my interest for now. What I'm curious
> about, though, is the possibility of using something such as a 32G compact
> flash card as a primary SSD in my laptop. I can't imagine something like
> that NOT existing already, and it would just need to have a carrier that
> would be the form and fit of a standard 2.5" IDE drive with a suitable
> socket for the CF card and perhaps an interface.
>
> Something else I'm interested in finding is ghosting software that
> will let me clone my present laptop HD to a backup so that I don't have to
> suffer the partial loss of this machine should I encounter another one of
> those viruses that install one piece at a time.
>
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