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Re: CF and adapter or ? for Vampire V2+ 500 advice needed
« on: August 25, 2017, 03:03:21 AM »
I have some 4GB DoM I'm going to try with my Vampire sometime in the next week.
 

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Re: CF and adapter or ? for Vampire V2+ 500 advice needed
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2017, 03:46:04 AM »
I'm not aware of any that have been tried but I will definitely let you know when I do.

There's a good bit of conjecture around different threads and forums on the use of CFs in our retro machines.  If seems the CF has become a defacto standard for IDE drive replacement, but there's question as to whether the consumer or industrial CFs are better for reliability and longevity.  A DoM is inherently industrial.

I take a stance on the industrial stuff just because even if you expect these configurations to be temporary, temporary has a tendency to become permanent.  

Maybe not a huge thing if a CF suddenly dies and you can lose the data, but again I found recently that configurations and data I lost were, while not important, a kind-of bummer and pain-in-the-rectum to replace.
 

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Re: CF and adapter or ? for Vampire V2+ 500 advice needed
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2017, 01:31:20 PM »
That KingSpec 32GB is a pretty good price for a DoM (just over $1 per GB,) but I will warn you I have had a lot of problems with the KingSpec IDE SSDs on machines with real performance.  I think the controller just can't handle proper DMA speeds but it shouldn't be a problem for our old PIO systems.  YMMV.