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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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CF card *slower* than IDE HDD
« on: September 05, 2008, 02:25:26 PM »
I have put a 16GB Transcend CF card in a CF->IDE adapter and am using it in a G4 Mac Mini running OS X Tiger. To my surprise, this is considerably slower than the original IDE hard disk. Is this normal? I was under the impression that CF cards are faster than hard disks :-?
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Re: CF card *slower* than IDE HDD
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2008, 06:45:48 PM »
Oops, forgot about this thread. So I assume the reason why CF cards are faster than hard disk drives on an Amiga is because neither is running at its top speed. In this situation, is it the reduced seek time of CF which gives it the edge?
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