Re: Compact Flash and IDE interface

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:44:55 -0800 (PST)


2MB a second is about right... Flash is slow... I get about that on an
older 64MB simple technologies flash card... maybe their doc says 16Mb/s
which would be quite accurate...

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Paul wrote:

> Hi
>
> I hope I'm sending this to the right list, sorry if it's not :)
>
> With compact flash cards connected via IDE what is the "normal" expected
> transfer rates? I have a Sandisk (32 and 128MB) and I only get around
> 2MB/sec (read test using hdparm) when all the docs from sandisk suggest
> around 16MB/sec. They haven't returned my emails so I suspect their specs
> are a little misleading...they quote around 16MB/sec read transfer rates.
>
> What sort of read rates should I be expecting?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
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