Compact Flash to SATA

My XP install has become fairly slow and I want to move away from my RAID 1 configuration because it is not offering me anything I actually need.

So I figured the easiest way to transition all of my data is to have a free disk, a disk with all my old content and another disk for my OS.

Solid state disks have been making their rounds and I thought it would be cool if there was a SATA to CF adapter that allowed be to boot of a generic solid state media.



Now I have an 8gb solid state disk for my OS.

I opened up Nero (as it is the only thing I know that has some sort of disk speed test) to find out what the performance was.

15MB/s as apposed to the ~65MB/s I was getting for my other media. I'm fairly sure that is only a read speed (the only thing that is important for buffering before burning to cd), but it is as expected. I'm hoping the speed of CF cards will pick up in the future.

I'm hoping the seek speed comes into play when the OS is finally loaded onto this thing, but it could take a fair amount of time to do the actual install.

I've got a game on tomorrow night, so installation will have to wait till at least Thursday.