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    Hmm interesting - a CF to IDE converter

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    The second 1 down (cfidefdd). You can use a compact flash card as a hard drive, bootable and all. So what would it be like if you used say a 4gb CF card? Would windows and games boot super quickly and be really stable? No slowing down while the HD has to load new textures etc. That could be interesting.

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    Yeah, sounds like a project for somebody to take up,

    And if it works, could mean a new generation in super fast computing

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    looks good , not sure what sized compact flash cards you can get atm - 256mb or 512mb i guess is the max.. my friend has an integrated solution thing, and it has a 4gb harddrive which is solidstate. so damned tiny , just havent got the thing working yet as it needs an isa slot .

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    you can only format it with FAT32 iirc though, also a 4gig CF costs uber wonger :/

    IBM Microdrives are cheaper, although not solid state.
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    It'd be slower than a hard drive, even if you used the fastest 40x CF cards, i looked into it recently as i was going to do it, booting the OS on an HTPC.

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    4gig costs around £1k, so yeah only if money is no object are you going to do this.

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