Would you use Compact flash for a modern storage drive?

[SuperCookie78]

In retro pc building compact flash is used for small pc's because it is pin compatible with ide and is cheap for the low size. It has good sequential speeds vs an ide drive from the time but bad random speeds. Modern machines don't have IDE but you can get an adapter. you could adapt from compact flash to ide then to sata. This is by no means a good solution, its a bad solution but in a pinch if you had the parts but not a harddrive would you use it? or would you wait until a hardrive came. Pst Linus you should try this

[Crunchy Dragon]

I personally wouldn't. HDDs these days are pretty cheap. If I really need to, I can also buy used.

[AshleyAshes]

If you were building a retro PC that uses an IDE drive, a CF card, since it only requires a passive adaptor to work on an IDE drive, that's a GREAT swap in part and any PC will support this. Yes.  Infact for arcade machines that used IDE HDDs for storage of the game media, FMVs and such, a CF card is a popular replacement part for hobbiests because it removes the mechanical element entirely from the machine.

 

However for SATA?  No.  going through a an IDE to SATA active adaptor just for primate storage in hardware with a SATA controller?  Just get a discount SSD. You could also use a CFast to SATA adaptor since that is also passive.  But CFast cards are eeeeeeeeexpeeeeeensive.  A bog standard SSD would do you better.

[SuperCookie78]

1 minute ago, AshleyAshes said:

If you were building a retro PC that uses an IDE drive, a CF card, since it only requires a passive adaptor to work on an IDE drive, that's a GREAT swap in part and any PC will support this. Yes.  Infact for arcade machines that used IDE HDDs for storage of the game media, FMVs and such, a CF card is a popular replacement part for hobbiests because it removes the mechanical element entirely from the machine.

 

However for SATA?  No.  going through a an IDE to SATA active adaptor just for primate storage in hardware with a SATA controller?  Just get a discount SSD. You could also use a CFast to SATA adaptor since that is also passive.  But CFast cards are eeeeeeeeexpeeeeeensive.  A bog standard SSD would do you better.

agreed but it would work right

[AshleyAshes]

Just now, SuperCookie78 said:

agreed but it would work right

Pulling a car with a cow in a harness would also 'work'... But that whole 'Internal Combustion Engine' business would be a lot less dumb.