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Varmint
04-06-2007, 11:22 AM
http://www.shopaddonics.com/itemdesc.asp?CartId={E1C0CCB4-FD0EVEREST2-43AF-B76D-34C2798F3025}&ic=ADEB44IDE2CF&eq=&Tp=

Anyone know anything about these? Does this mean I can buy an 8 GB CF card and install Windows on it?

Edit: I forgot that flash drives aren't as fast as a hard drive, so I guess this isn't of interest to desktop users.

http://www.shopaddonics.com/mmSHOPADDONICS/Images/adeb44ide2cf.gif

rodsfree
04-06-2007, 11:43 AM
I bought one off of ebay cheaper.

Mine required an IDE cable and a floppy drive power connection.

I wouldn't install windows to a CF though. I'd look at one of the microdrives.
All of the frequent writes to the page would probably distroy a flash chip pretty quickly.
You could cut off the pagefile though, or if you put emough RAM on the motherboard to create a ramdrive at boot that you could use as a page file.

I'm sure that they are plenty of different ways of doing it.

I got mine for building a pfsense router.

Varmint
04-06-2007, 01:02 PM
I forgot that flash drives aren't as fast as a hard drive, so I guess this isn't of interest to desktop users.