CF-28 with CF 32g ssd

I know this has been discussed to death on these forums, but just to throw in my 2 cents...
I bought a dual cf to ide adapter (3.45on e-bay).. 32g 400X CF card (77.00 from newegg) and am using it as a hard drive right now in my cf-28. I had an older 30g HD in it, and am seeing substantially better performance so far (going on 2 days now, I know it may be premature, but like it so far. I have not done any benchmark testing or anything, just normal usage (autocad/mastercam at work, browsing and such at home). The battery life seems to have almost doubled (3.5 hrs to 5.5) which I have read would not be the case, and am glad that it turned out in my favor. I think one reason may be that my particular usage is not really requiring the HD to work constantly, so it rests more???
Dunno, just seems to work. I am also using XP performance edition, which is essentially a stripped down version of XP. I tried plain ole XP and it worked faster than with my old HD, but XP performance really makes it feel like a new computer. A legit ssd would probably be much better, and maybe someday I will put one in, but for now, this is working well.

 

Download HDtune pro
Run the first benchmark to measure read performance
When you report back I will compare your results with around 6 different ide hard drives and a ide ssd drive I use in the older Toughbooks

 

wow, trial period expired fast
did a test, restarted to try again for comparison, and trial is over!

but had minimum 47.7 max 49.0...hope that is what you were talkin about.

 

downloaded plain hd tune, can use that free it says, although they stat 15 days trial. weird! Anyway, got the same results.

 

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now I am going to have to hook back up my old HD just to see what it does.

 

Your read result is equivalent to the Samsung 5400 160GB or Hitachi 7200
And twice as fast as a 4200rpm hard drive that would have been the stock drive
The true ide ssd's are quite a bit faster though , a bought a 16GB Kingspec and it tested out at over 70mb/s

The 32GB Kingspec ssd's from china cost just over $100 btw

Access time is very fast on your drive, as are all ssd's

 

Yeah, I figured out that I was probably not doing the best when I saw a 160gb ssd on newegg for $200 (sata only though) but I think this will work ok for now, thanks for the info. I am just glad it works, I had nightmares about having to resell the card on e-bay or something and kicking myself fo not listening to all the nay-sayers.( may still do some kicking, let's hope not) anyway, other than disabling paging, is there anything else I should do to help the frankendrive healthy?

 

Yes those sata ssd's are very fast

You don't want to defrag
And you don't want to fill it past 60% or so