Re: cf as a ssd ?

On Mon, June 29, 2009 10:38 am, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> "Voytek Eymont" <[email protected]> writes:

> I can't comment on the SATA bridge chips, but historically the
> performance of the CF cards was pretty poor, especially for random writes.
> They did OK for
> bulk streaming writes, of course, since that was what they were tuned for.
> If the SATA bridge requires PIO access to the CF card, expect very poor
> performance.  If it is more like a USB adapter, handling that on the card,
> you might do OK.
> The traditional PATA adapters for CF cards only exposed PIO mode, so were
>  pretty expensive to run in terms of performance and CPU load.

thanks for pointing this out, I've since found one that "Supports DMA and
Ultra DMA modes (only on flash media card with such features)"

but, even so, I might need to re-justify the need(?) at higher price, and,
consider the 'real deal', thanks again



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Voytek

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