Floid wrote:
Putting most of the system stuff on the CF, and everything else on a drive on a nice power-saving timer could be a boon.
This is similar to what I am attempting on my
1200 project. The OS, MUI and other often - read
files will go on the CF, whilst all other
apps and most writes will take place on SCSI.
With 5mb/s transfers and little seek time, I'm
anticipating about 3 second boot times.
On modern systems though CF cards may actually
turn out to be rather crippling due to slow
transfer speeds (unless there are faster cards
I'm not aware of), but I'm still looking forward
to trying it out on a Pegasos (when I get one).
-edit-
It seems the "fastest" CF cards are only up
to about 8 Mb/sec read and 6 Mb/sec write
speeds, so copying large files would be very
slow...IMO until the technology improves I'd
say CF should be reserved to boot patitions
and minimal writes...
