Thread: Hibernate file on CF card?

umm...hmmm...i remember a thread about this....but i think it talked mostly about have all of the windwos on the card....but just he hibernaton files...hmmmmm

i did the same research. no can do

You can, if you have a CF-IDE adaptor. Then windows (and everything else) will just see it as a HDD. Without special drivers.

BUT, CF-cards are not necessarily faster (please tell us, if you test it ) AND they only have a limited number of writes before they start slowing down (but as you only will write to it when going to hibernate, that should be ok)...

The adapters are 20 bucks or something...

Originally Posted by JC-S60

BUT, CF-cards are not necessarily faster (please tell us, if you test it ) AND they only have a limited number of writes before they start slowing down (but as you only will write to it when going to hibernate, that should be ok)...

I'm pretty sure that CF cards are much slower than HDs, something like 10,/sec read and 9meg/sec write, its not going to be faster than a hard drive

BUT seek times are nearly 0

Then again, for reading one big file, that won't do much, lol

Originally Posted by JC-S60

BUT seek times are nearly 0

Then again, for reading one big file, that won't do much, lol

Yep

Originally Posted by TrickerZ

what's the read rate on a laptop drive? I know it has a burst of 100mb/s but after the cache, what's the read speed? I know a 100x CF card is 15mb/s continuous.

I don't have to search I'm beting its more than the 100x CF card, esp for a 7200rpm drive

CF cards are waaay slower, it's closer to a CD-ROM speed than a hard drive speed.