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    CF-U1 64gb SSD stupidly slow.

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Davehillbo, Mar 28, 2016.

  1. Davehillbo

    Davehillbo Newbie

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    Hi all,

    I have a CF-U1 mk 2.5, and the 64gb SSD in it is dog slow, how they managed to ship this thing with this poor excuse of an SSD is beyond me. So, question is:

    1. Can the onboard SD port be used as a boot option? It looks like its based on the PCI bus and not USB, so it shouldn't be limited to USB speeds?
    2. Is there any other SSD options? Ive seen the 32gb is quicker, but by how much?
    3. Are there any other hacks to get a different SSD in the machine? I don't really want to be stripping it down.
    4. What is the best OS option on this thing? I'm thinking XP/2k for the slow CPU clock.

    Many thanks!

    David.
     
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    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    BaRRmaley Notebook Deity

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    Same problem in General Dynamics GD3000. HDD's are much faster than IDE 1.8" SSD used there.
    I've changed SSD's to 1.8" IDE ZIF HDD's. Cheap and works well.
     
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    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    Thanks Blair.
    I figured by just reading it he would gain information.

    Guess I could have said more in that post.
     
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    Davehillbo Newbie

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    Thanks for the info all, I appreciate it!

    Just to add a bit of info, ive just performed an ATTO speed test on the SSD, results are 70MB/s+ read and 30MB/s + write, which to me doesn't seem that bad at all! so why would HDD access be so abysmal !
     
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    It's an IDE drive
     
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    ADOR Evil Mad Scientist

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    If you want me to dig my speed tests up I can. I know I have the tests posted in my thread
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/28-days-with-the-cf-u1.700414/

    I still mess with them, there was another thread here a while back something I was wanting to try was done by another guy. He did away with the 1" ssd and went with a internal harddrive with zif connection. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/cf-u1-junkie.781375/

    Here are some other threads of interest.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/cf-u1-ssd.776731/
     
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