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Old 3rd July 2008
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Sata transfers at a rate of 3 Gbits, best flash assemblies go 15 Mbytes to 40 Mbytes (at high cost). This is 10-15 times slower.

I just use USB flash sticks rated 9 Mbytes, but 25 bucks (some months ago) for 4 Gigs.
And I can carry my usual OS and apps on any piece of hardware that can boot from USB.

Was planning to use small IDE 40/44pins flash to hold the root but as flash sticks start to be used in marketing, prices drop even more.

Got a half Tera with both eSATA and USB 2 for archival and backups.
All other machines have a directory I can use with NFS, as working space when needed and until the drive dies.

Caution: the market for SC is mainly digital photography and the CFs are FAT32 formatted. Speed increase is not always wired but can come, even partly, from embedded software. Newfs the CF (if that CF accepts it) you probably would fall back to 5-9 Mbytes/sec.
Check with the manufacturer's sites, not resellers.
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