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The Durango Kid · 12-11-2003, 09:37 AM

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So what are the reasons you have for going with a CF card as the boot device now that we have eliminated the speed issue by proving that CF is slower than IDE transfer rates

CF cards for a bootable device are NOT slower.. The transfer speeds they talk about are not the transfer speed to RAM.. Booting from a CF card is atleast 50% faster then a standard IDE drive. I've booted Win98 from a USB CF and booted in 6 seconds.. Thats a standard windows install.. From a ram drive I've booted in under 2 seconds (once copied to the ram drive).. Your transer rate will only come into play if you are moving files to and from the drive.. Notice the CF cards have next to 0 access time.. This is what will help your boot times..

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and also by me providing a solution which is more cost effective and overall more efficient.

Well money is not my driving force here.. Performance is.. So if paying a few extra bucks from something that will give me the performance I want then that what I would have done..

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Please explain in detail as I have no idea why one would want to spend so much money just to gain a whole 5 seconds in boot time which could be gained by using Linux or Windows without the explorer shell and all its services that are not requied just to run GUI output.

Even if you which to Linux or XPLite with an IDE drive you can do the same with a CF drive and pick up the same advantage.. That doesn't change which is better cause you can do it to both..

Since other then stealing the embeded software from Microsoft (which I don't plan on doing) I see no other option other then run a standard 2 drive setup or run a CF drive hosting my OS and running it from a ram drive (I have a feeling this is going to be a little too slow) I don't have much of a choice.. More then likely I'll be running 2 drives (since I found a 2.5gig laptop drive from my old laptop) and suspend to ram with WindowsXP..

Thanks for the input everyone.. I knew the limatations of the CF drives but I wanted to see if anyone had figured out a way around them (readonly Windows OS)..

12-11-2003, 09:37 AM	#22
The Durango Kid Variable Bitrate Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Wilkes Barre, Pa Posts: 233	Quote: So what are the reasons you have for going with a CF card as the boot device now that we have eliminated the speed issue by proving that CF is slower than IDE transfer rates CF cards for a bootable device are NOT slower.. The transfer speeds they talk about are not the transfer speed to RAM.. Booting from a CF card is atleast 50% faster then a standard IDE drive. I've booted Win98 from a USB CF and booted in 6 seconds.. Thats a standard windows install.. From a ram drive I've booted in under 2 seconds (once copied to the ram drive).. Your transer rate will only come into play if you are moving files to and from the drive.. Notice the CF cards have next to 0 access time.. This is what will help your boot times.. Quote: and also by me providing a solution which is more cost effective and overall more efficient. Well money is not my driving force here.. Performance is.. So if paying a few extra bucks from something that will give me the performance I want then that what I would have done.. Quote: Please explain in detail as I have no idea why one would want to spend so much money just to gain a whole 5 seconds in boot time which could be gained by using Linux or Windows without the explorer shell and all its services that are not requied just to run GUI output. Even if you which to Linux or XPLite with an IDE drive you can do the same with a CF drive and pick up the same advantage.. That doesn't change which is better cause you can do it to both.. Since other then stealing the embeded software from Microsoft (which I don't plan on doing) I see no other option other then run a standard 2 drive setup or run a CF drive hosting my OS and running it from a ram drive (I have a feeling this is going to be a little too slow) I don't have much of a choice.. More then likely I'll be running 2 drives (since I found a 2.5gig laptop drive from my old laptop) and suspend to ram with WindowsXP.. Thanks for the input everyone.. I knew the limatations of the CF drives but I wanted to see if anyone had figured out a way around them (readonly Windows OS)..