CF vs Harddrive Transfer Rate (Boot Time)

**konnichiwa** · 03-06-2006, 09:11 AM

Does anyone have any actual figures on the transfer rate of Hard Drives vs CF?

The only tables i can find are the HD internal transfer rate (which can be as high as 700mb/sec) but it obviously cannot transfer at that rate to the mobo.

So basically.. what is the standard tranfser rate of a harddrive, and what is a standard transfer rate of a CF card?

And does the CF card's faster transfer rate improve boot time significantly?

came up blank.

**shrinkydinx** · 03-06-2006, 09:19 AM

what kind of hdd?

i just trasfered a gig between hard drives at ~40MB/s

**SFiorito** · 03-06-2006, 10:37 AM

the max transfer rate you'll get from a very fast CF card is going to be around 15-18MB/s, but it kinda evens out because flash has no (or minimal) seek and spin up time whereas a HDD does.