Industrial-grade isn't strictly necessary, however if you mean to use such a system for a longer amount of time it's highly recommended because they last through a ton more program and erase cycles, so the media wearout will be significantly slower.
CompactFlash is used because it's essentially flash memory that's connected to a legacy parallel ATA/IDE interface, see it as an early form of SSD.
At present i am instaling Windows 2000 so far so good it is on the final tasks,i will keep my fingers crossed.It is all done they were asking me to connect to the internet but as you can see it is not in a case.This motherboard came from a very heavy Retro case that also had a moduler PSU that works all for £5.
The seller said it failed to boot that seems to have been a falling IDE drive.The HEATSINK Fan fell off.And something was burning on the board when i tried it in the case.The heat sink fans looks ok 1465, if it stills works i should think it is worth a few bob.I took a small Heatsink off another board and the Heatsink Fan.I am glad i got one board to work 100%
Two other boards are nearly there they both have some caps that need replacing .i don,t know when i will get round to doing that ,as i have never sone any soldering before .Others on here have said that heatsink fan is collectable.
Run of the mill CF cards aren't particularly R/W durable.
If going this route for winNT derivatives, you'll want 'industrial' / SLC CF cards anyway. (Which, are merely miniaturized PATA/IDE SSDs)
IMO, anything newer than Win9X writes to the disk too much. You can get old SLC SATA SSDs for under $20 shipped. (Most builds for win2k-XP will not have an issue with an IDE-adapted SSD)
I'm doubtful you'll find industrial and SLC CF cards for that kind of money.
With pro photography moving to CFx etc. CF cards are a rapidly fading 'economical solution' for many retro builds.
(CF's 100% IDE/PATA compatibility may still be handy for W9x/DOS, etc.)
Note: these little old CF cards are still great for stacking bootloaders, though.
In other words, for Booting to an NVMe drive on PCIe 1.0 or PCI-PCIe bridged builds. (Booting to Win7 on an Optane P1600X in a S940 dual Opteron K8N-DL was pretty cool, even if only PCIe1.0 x1)
The CF cards i have are Sandisk Extreme UDMA 7.
Industrial-grade isn't strictly necessary, however if you mean to use such a system for a longer amount of time it's highly recommended because they last through a ton more program and erase cycles, so the media wearout will be significantly slower.
CompactFlash is used because it's essentially flash memory that's connected to a legacy parallel ATA/IDE interface, see it as an early form of SSD
Run of the mill CF cards aren't particularly R/W durable.
If going this route for winNT derivatives, you'll want 'industrial' / SLC CF cards anyway. (Which, are merely miniaturized PATA/IDE SSDs)
IMO, anything newer than Win9X writes to the disk too much. You can get old SLC SATA SSDs for under $20 shipped. (Most builds for win2k-XP will not have an issue with an IDE-adapted SSD)
I'm doubtful you'll find industrial and SLC CF cards for that kind of money.
With pro photography moving to CFx etc. CF cards are a rapidly fading 'economical solution' for many retro builds.
(CF's 100% IDE/PATA compatibility may still be handy for W9x/DOS, etc.)
Note: these little old CF cards are still great for stacking bootloaders, though.
In other words, for Booting to an NVMe drive on PCIe 1.0 or PCI-PCIe bridged builds. (Booting to Win7 on an Optane P1600X in a S940 dual Opteron K8N-DL was pretty cool, even if only PCIe1.0 x1)
No you want they are exspencive industral CF cards that is.No i know that i am using one for a HDD i will get another adapter I just looked up the price for SLC SSD,S as you say the price is good.
Run of the mill CF cards aren't particularly R/W durable.
If going this route for winNT derivatives, you'll want 'industrial' / SLC CF cards anyway. (Which, are merely miniaturized PATA/IDE SSDs)
IMO, anything newer than Win9X writes to the disk too much. You can get old SLC SATA SSDs for under $20 shipped. (Most builds for win2k-XP will not have an issue with an IDE-adapted SSD)
I'm doubtful you'll find industrial and SLC CF cards for that kind of money.
With pro photography moving to CFx etc. CF cards are a rapidly fading 'economical solution' for many retro builds.
(CF's 100% IDE/PATA compatibility may still be handy for W9x/DOS, etc.)
Note: these little old CF cards are still great for stacking bootloaders, though.
In other words, for Booting to an NVMe drive on PCIe 1.0 or PCI-PCIe bridged builds. (Booting to Win7 on an Optane P1600X in a S940 dual Opteron K8N-DL was pretty cool, even if only PCIe1.0 x1)
I can,t use them on the board i have just got going as it is all IDE no Sata.
I thought i would get one of these
PC Power Supply Teater. I just hope all the PSU,s i got with PC cases work..
From China
Postage:Free SpeedPak Economy which they say i should get it between Mon, 22 May and Mon, 29 May,I look for the SpeedPak delivery because it is a lot faster than the normal delivery.
