On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe <m...@professionalsysadmin.com> > wrote: >> >> But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards >> for the hypervisor boot > > > Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most > stable - SD or CF...
Ultimately they both probably have the same flash chips inside of them so if your main concern is reliability, I don't think it matters. If your concern is performance, CF seems to be used in more "professional" applications and more high-speed CF cards are readily available. In either case I would suggest avoiding the cheap no-name brands. Sandisk Extreme Pro is likely the fastest card you can buy (of either CF or SD form factor), it is available up to 100MB/sec write speeds, but of course your card reader/host needs to support speeds like that. Sandisk also routinely has more than 10x the random I/O performance of most of the other brands which is important when using it on a computer and not in a linear recording device (photos/video).
