Compact Flash HDD

[jellybeard999]

I'm currently running a fileserver using a 4gb CF card and IDE adaptor with XP SP3 installed (~1.5-2gb free)

Transfer speeds are quite slow between drives (ie drive to drive - not involving the CF card)and across the network. I've moved the swap directory to a different drive and even tried turning it off (runnign 2gb DDR2, 1.8ghz C2D). Is the CF drive the issue limiting the transfer speeds? Any suggestion to resolve this - or do I need to go to a HDD?)

Any ideas appreciated.

I went for the CF drive as it doesn't take a HDD slot, produces no heat and is silent - but if it limits this much, then I might need a rethink.

 

[siege2]

ooo my yes cf is very slow google compact flash speed's also compact is made for cameras etc not for hard drives speed I have 2 * 2gb compact flash cards you could boot from them but you should put a standard hard drive as drive d: say that way transfering from hard drive to onother pc connected through lan "rg45" should not be so bad , do some speed transfer test's use hdtach etc on the hard drives.
or time the transfer in minutes for a 500 meg file for instance etc

ps;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash#Speed

 

[jellybeard999]

I know the CF itself is slow, i think hdtach had it at 4mb/s.

For arguments sake.

C:\ = CF card
D:\ = 1tb WD Greenpower
E:\ = 1tb WD Greenpower

Transferring from D:\ to my main PC is slow, transferring from D:\ to E:\ is slow. Is this caused by the slow speed of the CF drive, or is the issue unrelated.

 

[leexgx]

Boot using an small cheap 5400 hdd or 3200/5200 laptop drive as an test

could be the page file Writeing to the CF put the page file onto one of the HDDs, or the HDDs area ll in PIO mode not UDMA mode

or use one of the green power hdds (5-10gb c: and d: what ever is left)

i would try that get partition magic or something like that that is none destructive for resizing the drives or if there is no data on there just remake the drive on xp install