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speeding up disk-based laptop by moving /usr to flash?



On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:39:52PM +0000, jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 4. I believe that cf is a more direct connection to pc card than sd cards are. Which may give another edge to cf card in performance and speed.

Compact Flash is actually PATA in another form. You can buy a
cheap adapter to go from a PC's PATA to a CF that doesn't do any
protocol translation, just wiring.

PCMCIA also implements PATA, and passes it through to CF.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompactFlash should be
enlightening.

-dsr-

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