Repeat after me, CF cards ARE NOT FASTER.
The current CF standard tops out at 4mb/s,
thats faster than your observed 1.5mb/s....
but of course, as you mentioned, the Amiga is the bottleneck, not the CF card. And the same thing will be true, if you plug in a modern IDE drive....you'll find the same bottleneck.
But whereas CF cards top out at 4mb/s...and the upcoming CF 2.0 standard will go up to 16mb/s....hard drives were at 16mb/s during the Fast ATA era...and went to 33mb/s, and then 66mb/s and 100 and finally now at 133mb/s....well, that's the speed of the standard, real world is not so fast, but it's way more than 4mb/s...!!!!
I just bought a 30mb maxtor 7200rpm, 2mb cache drive for $30 after rebates from comp-usa.
Not only is it much much larger, has no problems with writes (your card will burn out quickly if you use it for writes a lot)...but my drive is much much faster.
I'm trying to give good advice, please....just look up the published transfer rates...a 1x = 150k/s....so use the speed readings and determine the speed of your CF card....you'll see its much slower.
my brother runs a large business and uses CF drives for boot drives...he does it because of no moving parts, and he thinks it might be more reliable, plus its very small and low power.
(he runs a large isp)....ok....he said all along that CF drives are not faster...I made the same mistake a few years back, thinking they must be faster.
Now....since then I read the spec's and keep tabs on them, but they are still not very fast compared to hdd's, even today.
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