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Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DRIVE www.amigakit.com
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:13:35 AM »
I've run Windows XP on compact flash, and the results were quite disappointing.

Compact flash is incredibly fast on random reads - clearly the seek time of Solid State beats a mechanical rotating drive - however, they have the same write stuttering issues of early SSD drives.   That's because flash can't simply write one bit, to change one bit, it has to write the whole block.  That makes random writes, just horrible.

Still, it's great as an option , as long as people understand the limitations.  

Transcend TS4GIFD25 - this was a 4gb SLC SSD drive that would have worked fairly good in an Amiga, too bad Tiger is sold out.