Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has swapped their internal hard drive for a compact flash card using one of those 2.5" ide to cf card adapters they sell on ebay? I have a wallstreet g3 with 128mb, 60gig, os9.2 and osx10.4 via xpostfacto. I'm mulling the idea of yanking my hard drive out and going with compact flash card(s) for internal storage. It ought to ameliorate the heat a bit, cut noise, extend battery life, and speed things up quite a bit. My thoughts are that it would be almost impossible for the compact flash card to not drastically beat the pokey 5400 rpm hard drive on data throughput. I would hazard to guess that my data transfer speeds' limiting factor would be whatever the capabilities of the ide system in the wallstreet is and/or the capability of the bridgecard to sustain throughput speeds. The downside seems minimal, but if someone has tried this and has tips on pitfalls or travails they have encountered or the raving successes they've had as well - please pass em along!
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