Recommendation for a CF-card?

[TJF]

Hi,

some time ago I had (sometimes) a boot problem. Here at the forum I got the advice to use a Kingston USB-Stick. Since that time it works ...

I use also an old PC with the last 32Bit N4F with an IDE->CF Adapter and a compact flash card (an old 8 GB Transcend UDMA 400x). Here I have the same problem now. Sometimes N4F hangs after booting ...

Could anyone give me an advice, with which new compact flash card-type he has positive experience?

Regards
Thomas

[raulfg3]

https://www.transcend-info.com/Support/FAQ-392

https://www.cactus-tech.com/products/in ... pact-flash

[TJF]

@raulfg3
Thank you! Unfortunately cactus 503 is not available in Germany. Transcend offers only consumer products... ???

[ms49434]

Lexar, SanDisk, Transcend are well known vendors in Germany. You can get a full list of the CFA members from here: https://www.compactflash.org/member-list
400x, 1000x indicates the transfer rate of your CF card in comparison to the original audio CD data transfer rate which is 150kB/s.

Any CF card with a transfer rate of 100MB/s / 666x or more will do but I think the IDE to CF adapter could be a limiting factor.

[raulfg3]

search for industrial CF cards if possible, but as ms49434 says, new ones are all good for use as HD

[TJF]

Thank you. Speed is not the important thing. The CF Adapter slows down to UDMA-33.

No special recommendation? If not, I will buy anyone of the named cards...

[JoseMR]

Thank you. Speed is not the important thing. The CF Adapter slows down to UDMA-33.

No special recommendation? If not, I will buy anyone of the named cards...

Hi, just to add in here any $5.99 old 2.5" IDE Laptop HDD from eBay, will outperform in absolutely every imaginable way the IDE/CF card approach, also the very little power consumption addition does not justify to use an unreliable/picky boot methods for a NAS IMHO.

All you need is a 2.5"(44 PIN) to 3.5"(40 PIN) IDE Adapter like this and simply setup and forget.

P.S I've used this parts in an old firewall setup for quite long time ago with zero issues.

Regards

[TJF]

@ JoseMR
Ohhh... First I took an old 3.5" HDD. This was too loud. But I didn't have the great idea to use a 2.5" Laptop HDD (I have some... ) !!!

Thank you, very much!

Best regards
Thomas

[was-armandh]

with the trend to ever larger SSDs there are smaller ones available mostly SATA but some PATA
120 Gb and under very reasonable in name brand, no noise, low power consumption.
also these PATA to SATA drive https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Pata-IDE-T ... 0677.m4598

only one of my Xi boots from other than an SSD,
only because it has a micro SD slot that boots.
it is a Z-box slapped together as a web server.

I add, using a HDD just for embedded boot.
if only booting [no swap] and using embedded
I always added but did not mount the drive to the OS
thus it could be set to spin down 5 min after the boot.