Re: Off Topic -- CF hard disk in PC?

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <MPG.1de04679c38f6029896e7@news.verizon.net>,
Charles  <spammeister12345@aol.com> wrote:
>Is there a way to use one of these to make the boot disk for a pc and 
>store all the operating system of windows xp on the CF card (how big do 
>they get?) and load xp lickety split (like 2 secs), like back in the day 
>with the AE Ramkeeper?

You can get a CF-IDE adapter for not much money, but there are some problems
with trying to run Windows off of one:

1) The swapfile will kill it in short order.
2) WinXP won't fit on the smallish cards most of us keep around; you'd
   probably need a 4GB or 8GB card, and those are expen$ive.
3) CF is much slower than any reasonably modern hard drive.  (The fastest
   CF cards offer a transfer rate of around 12-15 MB/s.  Current IDE hard
   drives are good for at least 4x that.)

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