32GB CF Card or a 40/80 GB IDE

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What do you guy's think?
I have a chance to get a 32GB CF Card or should i stick to a 40gb 2.5 or a 80GB HDD, they will be runnig either on a IDEFIX Express or a FASTATA MK-V....

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OK Cool... LOL i just got told by my supplier that i can get a 16GB one but at 300 times speed... were as the 32GB is 150 times...
Dam i hate choices.. mind you the 16GB is more expensive......
ok Guy's which one?

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alexh wrote:
If you get a 32GB CF card bare in mind you only have a 50:50 chance that it will work (probably lower). Newer CF cards seem to be all "removable" and are more and more incompatible with the Amiga.

If you can get it on "trial" then go for it. (Assuming it is not many times the price of a hard drive!)

If you have never used a CF card in the Amiga there is a short but steep learning curve when it comes to CF card types, "removable", maxtransfer size etc.

Speed is irrelevant. Unless you are using a CSPPC/MKIII the maximum speed is 5Mbyte/s well below the capabilities of most CF cards.

I think he said that he has a few old stock/second hand 4/8GB CF's would they be more compactible... As for price well the 32GB is AU$200 and the 16GB is more then that sooooo this is going to be a big buy.
On the other hand i have heaps of 40/80GB Seagate IDE and a few 2.5" IDE from between 6GB to 60GB. I just thought the CF Cards would be better but now with a chance that there maybe a compatiblity problem I should maybe go with the IDE drives...
HMMMMMM