On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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). > > > Thanks Paul, that's all pretty much what I'd concluded as well from my > research... > > I went with the 4GB SanDisk Ultra though (30MB/s), since these will only be > used to boot the VMWare hypervisor (which runs fully in RAM once it is > booted)... > > Now I'm looking forward to seeing them in action this weekend... :)
OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? -- :wq
