From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jun 11 0:26: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEDB37B40A for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810C8471DA; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB9DFEBE; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D05A601.CBDED54B@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 00:25:53 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Callaghan Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compact Flash vs ATA Disks References: <20020611115116.C65308-100000@neon.clari.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > are slient, easier to swap out than a hard disk, are ATAPI compatible, > > and are available in sizes up to 1GB. They're also slow, though > > throughput is a minor issue when only used to boot from. A 256MB CF > > Is this "slow" relative to a HDD? Or "slow" relative to DRAM? he fastest I've seen personally is ~3.3MB/sec, and I've seen tests report speeds over 4MB/sec. The host, reader, and make/model of CF media all affect throughput. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message