Quote: Originally Posted by eugenen
How is a flash drive any different than a CF with ide adapter. The ide adapter is just that an adapter, or a pair of connectors. The cf card was designed with ide in mind, the ide curcuitry is built into every CF card.
My reason for wanting one is I'm sort of building an embedded system. My OS will boot from the cf and run even if the mp3 drive isn't present. I have changed my plans to use a removable, hot pluggable ide drive for mp3's. I can remove my drive and take it with me and eventualy when my system does more such as interfacing with the OBD-II or GPS will still have some functionality there.
CF isn't really all that different from flashdrive. Just different buses. One is IDE (CF) and the other is serial (USB flashdrive). Unless of course, I got confused as to what everyone was referring to by "flash drive".
IDE is capable of faster transfer, but both CF and Flashdrive aren't capable of much more than the 12mbps transfer anyhow. (At least that's how it was explained to ME...)