Compact flash HD's

[brokenarrow03]

I was thinking of getting one (or a few) of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998003

I was curious what the general opinion of these are, neweggs reviews seem to be hit and miss. Basically I would just be using these for my folding boxen which isnt terrible disk intensive, and just wondered how well they worked. I know that many of us use them for FreeNAS, IPCOP, and other firewall distros, I was looking a putting XP on one...

 

[drgnfang]

Personally I just got one of these: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/fdm40xdi2g

 

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I was thinking of getting one (or a few) of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998003

I was curious what the general opinion of these are, neweggs reviews seem to be hit and miss. Basically I would just be using these for my folding boxen which isnt terrible disk intensive, and just wondered how well they worked. I know that many of us use them for FreeNAS, IPCOP, and other firewall distros, I was looking a putting XP on one...

Make sure it supports UDMA transfers

 

[nitrobass24]

Why not just use some usb flash drives? Prolly faster and cheaper.

 

[brokenarrow03]

Why not just use some usb flash drives? Prolly faster and cheaper.

I googled it, do you have a link to a good walkthrough?

 

[nitrobass24]

http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/usb.html

Edit: NVM your trying to put XP on there so you can GPU fold right?

umm well lets see.
I dont have a walkthrough.
Why dont you NTFS partition it and just clone your xp installation from the current HDD to the USB
Set to boot from USB.

I dunno but it might work.
Check this out
http://www.ngine.de/article/id/8
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16472

 

[brokenarrow03]

Coo...weekend project here we come