replacing 2,5" drive w/ cf-card in laptop?

samuelt · Post by **samuelt** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:23 am

I'm thinking about replacing the 2,5" ide drive in my laptop with an CF-card.
As I most of the time just loads a ramdisk from the disk I think it would worthwhile... Any one to disagree? Or am I on a totally crazy path of thought?

I can use a small portion of the card to save the config and use the rest for my ramdisk-image...

I would like your thoughts on this...

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 12:00 pm

As long as there are no files on the CF-card that are written to very often, e.g. swapfile or userdata, it should work fine. This idea is used in a lot of mini-ITX router or homeserver projects.

ipaqgeek · Post by **ipaqgeek** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:43 am

Samuelt-

Which CF/IDE adapter are you using? I've notice some say that you have to use 5V compatible CF cards, but I've never seen any CF cards that say whether or not they are 5V compatible.

Pauli · Post by **Pauli** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:30 am

Aren't CF cards comparatively slow?

samuelt · Post by **samuelt** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:25 am

sorry for not answering your questions at an earlier time..

i'm in a situation where i can't access intenet when i want to...

Tibors, yes i've also noticed that and that's where the idea came from.

ipaqgeek, hm, i've never played with cf-cards so that was something to think about...

pauli, well they are, but as my intension (<- bad spelling?) is to load stuff into a ramdisk from it i can take the performace hit at boottime as it will be snappy as hell when fully booted.