$6.70 - yep that is cheap.    The Sata adapters from new egg come with 
cables, power and Sata, and also a PCI bracket and in the case of the 
Addonics I think it also comes with a drive bay bracket (better check to 
make sure I am right).   But if you don't need that stuff..

Those DealExtreme prices are a little on the scary cheap side for me.. 
but I see that they have a feedback section now also..  nice..   If they 
are selling them for $6.70 each what do you think they are buying them 
for ..  $3.00 each !?!   Crazy..

Dave



On 7/1/2011 10:13 AM, Andrew wrote:
> 2011/7/1 Dave<[email protected]>:
>    
>> I have used two different Sata compact flash adapters.
>>
>> 1.  About $40 each - Addonics - model ADSACF.   I bought several
>> directly from their website.  Similar to this:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812174005&cm_re=sata_compact_flash_adapter-_-12-174-005-_-Product
>> 2.  About $15 each Syba -
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186061&cm_re=sata_compact_flash_adapter-_-12-186-061-_-Product
>>      
> I bought the cheapest CF SATA adapter
> http://www.dealextreme.com/p/compact-flash-cf-to-sata-hdd-converter-11164
>
>    
>> Both work well.   The Addonics might be a higher quality unit but I have
>> had both running in systems for over a year now.    I have one system
>> that has been running the Addonics card and the memory card below for
>> three years now.
>>
>> For memory, I tried a couple of different flash cards and found that
>> these work well and I have used several with zero issues - about $18
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340&cm_re=compact_flash_8gb-_-20-208-340-_-Product
>>      
> and exacty the same Transcend 8GB x133 card on D525MW. Also works
> well, but Ubuntu starts pretty slow.
>
> Latency is near 8200 with HT disabled and isolcpus enabled, I expected
> better resuts. Probably some BIOS settings might improve it a little?
>
> Andrew
>
>    
>> Boot time is quick, although a faster card might make it even quicker.
>>
>> So for about $33 you can have a diskless system that is easy to maintain.
>>
>> For laptop hard drives I have found that these are reliable:
>> $39.00  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148443
>>
>> I'm not a fan of WD drives.   I have had problems with them.   Seagates
>> seem to be much more reliable.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On 6/30/2011 10:14 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>>      
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Neil,
>>>>
>>>> If you are going for cheap, consider using a 8 gig Compact Flash Card in
>>>> a Sata to CF card adapter.
>>>>
>>>> I have a few running in machines now for a couple of years with zero 
>>>> issues.
>>>>
>>>> I can tell you exactly what parts I am using if you want to go that
>>>> route.   8 gigs is plenty of space for Ubuntu 10.04 and EMC2.   I
>>>> believe I have 5 gigs of free space or so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Yes, I'd like to know.  On a lot of these things, there are some models
>>> that work, and some that cause
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> Jon
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