WTB: CompactFlash to IDE adapter

[JoyMonkey]

Anyone know the best place to pick one up? Right now I'm looking at www.pcengines.ch or www.siliconkit.com .
Does anyone have any experience dealing with either one? I'm only interested in buying one right now, though I notice SiliconKit offer a good discount if I buy 10 or more.

[maraxle]

www.mini-itx.com has them too

[Edgedamage]

These folks have them.
http://adis.ca/store/cfdisk.5d.php

I also was thinking of getting one but the price of a 256 meg card was only $30 cheaper than a 40gig HDD I scrapped the idea.

[SirPeale]

Thanks for the link, Edge!

True about the price, but if you're going for a very quiet cabinet, or one that boots faaaaaaaaast, this would be great.

[JoyMonkey]

I ended up ordering one from http://www.siliconkit.com
I went for the model that requires an IDE cable to attach (some models insert straight into the motherboards IDE connector and look pretty flimsy).
It cost $26 with shipping, I ordered yesterday (Sunday) and they shipped it  early today.

[Edgedamage]

I will get one of those when the prices of micro drives drop.

[toto]

I bought  at http://siliconkit.com several times
very good and fast delivery

[rchadd]

http://www.cfide.co.uk/

[krick]

True about the price, but if you're going for a very quiet cabinet, or one that boots faaaaaaaaast, this would be great.

Isn't there some problem with CompactFlash having a limit on the number of read/writes?  I seem to remember someone mentioning that under normal use with an operating system that makes frequent writes to the "drive" (swapfile? file system updates?) the cards will fail in a year or two.

Just curious if this problem still exists and if so, how are people getting around it.

[Edgedamage]

Most are good for 1,000,000 read write cycles.

read here:
http://www.mikhailtech.com/articles/storage/kingstonsm64/page2.shtml

http://www.kanguru.com/cfmicrodrive.html

So letting windows use it to swap file might kill it in a few months. So getting a microdrive might be the better way to go.

[SirPeale]

So letting windows use it to swap file might kill it in a few months. So getting a microdrive might be the better way to go.

Something like that you wouldn't want to run Windows on it.  You'd want DOS.

[JoyMonkey]

So letting windows use it to swap file might kill it in a few months. So getting a microdrive might be the better way to go.

Something like that you wouldn't want to run Windows on it.  You'd want DOS.

Yep, I'm using mine with a DOS setup; I just squeezed ArcadeOS, Vantage and all the roms etc. onto a 16mb card. The thing boots straight into a game in about 2 seconds!