From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60702261135v5a29fd8hdbe7b7aa1ba690ef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:35:20 -0800 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti flash device? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <60d33f7e15c19ab7eb747e09f31e5c34@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15340e64-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2/26/07, Russ Cox wrote: > On 2/26/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > you might want a cf:pata adaptor. if you really need sata, chain a > > sata:pata adaptor. it's a bit messy, but cf is easier to get, > > cheeper per gigabyte and faster than flash drives. > > but still pretty slow, even compared to magnetic disk. > Read at about 70MB/s write at about 60MB/s. It's probably fast enough for my home use. http://www.adtron.com/products/I25fb-IDEFlashDisk.html Honestly I'm not sure what I get from my disks, I tend to go pretty low end though when I buy them. :-)