CF SSD - IDE Replacement?

[prc104]

Anyone done this with a laptop? Just curious how it worked out. I've got (2) laptops here I'd like to keep running, and the CF/IDE adaptors caught my eye on ebay versus a PATA/SSD.

Also, I'd like to know how CF cards are graded as far write and read speeds. Seems there is some controversy and differing standards.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks

[billofrights]

Even the fastest one will be ridiculously slow. I tried it once and it was painful to boot.

[Merc1138]

Did that once for a desktop running a linux build as a firewall, slowest thing I've ever seen. Ran great once everything was in RAM, but CF for storage is just painfully slow, even the "fastest" CF cards are horrible.

[MaHoTex]

Wow... It looks like the max xfer rate of a CF is 167 Mbyte/s

SSDs are at 6 Gbyte/s

Slow is an understatement...

[sfwdiy]

Total waste of time. In addition to the fact that you've got a 6Gbps SATA bus, SATA SSDs also have cache and the data is striped across multiple chips. The larger the drive capacity, the faster.

Don't even bother.

--B

[prc104]

Just to clarify, not SATA, just PATA-IDE for an older laptop.

Found some youtube videos that make it appear that the CF-IDE adaptor approach is much faster for loading programs on a basic laptop.

Seems more research is needed...

[Merc1138]

Just to clarify, not SATA, just PATA-IDE for an older laptop.

Found some youtube videos that make it appear that the CF-IDE adaptor approach is much faster for loading programs on a basic laptop.

Seems more research is needed...

Throw it out and find a cheap SATA laptop that's 3-5 years old.