nano and CF advantages?Forum: Hardware Talk Topic: nano and CF advantages? started by: Ceres Posted by Ceres on Nov. 27 2005,06:26
I am considering getting a DSM and I am curious about what the advantage of the CF versions is over the USB drive version. I don't know enough about data transfer rates to determine if the CF is faster. However, it would seem that there is a significant disadvantage to CF tech because of the limit on writes to the devices.Why not just boot from the pen (dsl toram) and then if you need "disk" plug in a Gb sized USB drive? (Also, what is the delivery time right now on a nano?) Thanks in advance. Dave Posted by chickenman on Nov. 27 2005,15:37
I think you'll find USB pens (or thumb drives, whatever) also have limited read/writes. They are in essence made of the same thing to my understanding (correct me please). If your working with a CF booting toram with frugal then you probably don't need to worry about the number of writes the thing is getting - it'll probably last longer then a conventional HDD anyway. Note that booting off USB is supposedly slower because of a "usb bottleneck" - having no experience with booting CF from ide all i can say is that presumably the usb's data communication formats are more restrictive etc. But that could be an old wives tale for all i know.
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