Comments on: Poor man’s SSD: Test results

By: Poor man’s SSD: Confusion and disappointment « Motho ke motho ka botho

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:53:45 +0000

[...] They’re cheaper than full-size drives, vastly cheaper than SSDs, and in all the time I’ve used mine I haven’t had a single error. [...]

By: Poor man’s SSD: No news is no news « Motho ke motho ka botho

Poor man’s SSD: No news is no news « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:32:01 +0000

[...] sum, nothing to report. Even on the card that was “stress-tested” for the better part of a [...]

By: canthus13

canthus13 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:43:39 +0000

Here’s some REAL retro hardware updated with CF….

http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php

By: Some audio success « Motho ke motho ka botho

Some audio success « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:16:42 +0000

[...] Just for the record, all this was installed and tested on that same CF card from months ago. [...]

By: cthulhu

cthulhu — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:02:31 +0000

I’ve bought a cheap 2xCF2IDE adapter, but the computer isn’t detecting it. Do I need to somehow format the card before it works? (same brand as you used here, also 8GB, 133x)

I suspect it has to do with some of the ebay CF2IDE adapters having the pins mounted in the wrong order, as mentioned on the thinkwiki page. But why anyone would put them in the wrong order beats me.

Anyway, thanks to your BIG pictures of your CF adapter, I can now go home and compare with mine.

This is the one that is causing me trouble:
http://img85.imageshack.us/i/byvsmeqegkkgrhqjjew5qi6.jpg

can be bought anywhere on ebay, like:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dual-CF-Compact-Flash-44-pin-IDE-2-5-Male-Adapter-/200492046409?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item2eae41d849

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:17:02 +0000

I’m glad to hear this If you want to go even crazier you might want to try this, it holds three CF cards!

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/2-5-diy-ssd.html

By: Three steps to instant cool « Motho ke motho ka botho

Three steps to instant cool « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:58:56 +0000

[...] you heard about CF cards or even SD cards being untrustworthy or having a short life span is utter and complete rubbish. Forget you heard it. I’ve been using one for about three months now, and spent almost three [...]

By: steve

steve — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:01:11 +0000

Great stuff
Must get me a CF card soon to have a totally solid-state webserver from 1998

By: aa

aa — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:25:30 +0000

Did it take 16 days to complete?!

By: ajlec2000

ajlec2000 — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:02:43 +0000

You are a pioneer.

From what I’ve read there can be quite a quality variance among flash media manufacturers. If memory serves me right (pardon the pun{s?}) San-disk and Toshiba have high quality standards whereas PNY and Kingston purchase their’s from a variety of manufacturers resulting in variance in their quality. I’ve had PNY’s fail right out of the package. Yet a PNY that was my first ever flash still works fine.