it makes sense to have a tiny and silent CF card, even if you will get poor speed from it.
I'm just not sure that I fully understand the point of this? I do see some reasons that make the CF nice especially if you want to move it back and forth between machines, but even if I took the loudest IDE hard drive that I have and put it inside of any one of the A2000 machines that I have, I would still never hear it over the noise of the power supply cooling fan and the floppy drive clicking.