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BrandStartech
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- A small form factor design to fit into space confined systems
- Backed by a StarTech.com 2-year warranty and free lifetime technical support
- Compatible with Compact Flash I/II, MicroDrive™
- Small, compact form factor
- No driver of software installation required
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This SATA to CF SSD adapter features a SATA male power connector and a SATA male data connector, as well as a Compact Flash port, allowing you to connect a Compact Flash type media card to a laptop computer in place of a serial ATA hard drive.
A Do-it-yourself SSD solution, the CF to SATA adapter allows Compact Flash, Compact Flash 2, or MicroDrive media to be used on a notebook computer as a bootable hard drive and requires no software or driver installation.
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StarTech SATA to Compact Flash AdaptorNote: Hot swapping not supported. Providing a simple solution for notebook users who wish to use a Compact Flash card as a bootable SATA drive, SAT2CF offers a convenient way to swap drives without having to open the host computer. Features:All-in-one on board solution takes care of conversion. No software/drivers or cables required Compatible with Compact Flash I/II, MicroDrive Convert your CF for use as a SSD (solid state drive) Use your Compact Flash card to act as the primary bootable device With no moving parts, provides a silent operation that is resilient to environmental factors while reducing overall power consumption Free Lifetime Technical Support Use your Compact Flash(CF) cards to be used as a bootable SATA drive All-in-one on board solution takes care of conversion. No software/drivers or cables required Compatible with Compact Flash I/II, MicroDrive Convert your CF for use as a SSD (solid state drive) Use your Compact Flash card to act as the primary bootable device With no moving parts, provides a silent operation that is resilient to environmental factors while reducing overall power consumption
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
compned with a transcend 16gb 400x campact flash card I cannot describe how quick this is compared to a good quality USB stick.
I am booting Ubuntu off this and my system boots in less than 20 seconds - to the desktop (auto-login).
small; although no sensible mounting options come with this; a bracket to make it fit 1.8" and 2.5" drive mounts would be useful altough this is a bare circuit board; so you'll have to get creative with mounting it.
well recommended as a cheap SSD solution - SSDs are just getting two big for simple uses. Smallest I could find was 64GB which is way more than I needed. So this provides me the speed and silence at a lot less money/
I am booting Ubuntu off this and my system boots in less than 20 seconds - to the desktop (auto-login).
small; although no sensible mounting options come with this; a bracket to make it fit 1.8" and 2.5" drive mounts would be useful altough this is a bare circuit board; so you'll have to get creative with mounting it.
well recommended as a cheap SSD solution - SSDs are just getting two big for simple uses. Smallest I could find was 64GB which is way more than I needed. So this provides me the speed and silence at a lot less money/
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Good idea, poor implementation
24 Mar 2009
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I design and manufacture embedded storage devices for a living, but mine are destined for MIL-COTS, so I went looking for a similar product in the commercial side. This adapter uses the exact same Marvel chipset as in my MIL-COTS board, and should work identically, it however does not.
Symptoms: The device appears to work fine, however there is a stealthy data corruption, attempting to do a Gentoo Linux installation failed 3 times in a row until I figured out how the 'disk' was getting corrupted. Because Linux uses a write-cache, some failed writes dont appear to be failed until you either reboot, or hard unmount the device and force clear the cache. Then on subsequent re-reads of the data you will see subtle bit-wise errors.
I've experienced this with my Marvel based design, if the board designer does not correctly match wire trace-lengths on the PWB amongst the ATA address/data/control lines, during high speed operation such as UDMA modes, there are race conditions leading to errors. The problem is generally that the Marvel chip in combination with some CF card devices will claim to perform CRC checking, but will actually not, so the host never knows that the data payload got corrupted on the way from the SATA controller to the CF card media.
Possible ways to overcome the issue, turn off all higher speed operations, limit operation to PIO0 or PIO1 mode (very slow), or choose a CF card that correctly implements the ATA CRC functionality.
Symptoms: The device appears to work fine, however there is a stealthy data corruption, attempting to do a Gentoo Linux installation failed 3 times in a row until I figured out how the 'disk' was getting corrupted. Because Linux uses a write-cache, some failed writes dont appear to be failed until you either reboot, or hard unmount the device and force clear the cache. Then on subsequent re-reads of the data you will see subtle bit-wise errors.
I've experienced this with my Marvel based design, if the board designer does not correctly match wire trace-lengths on the PWB amongst the ATA address/data/control lines, during high speed operation such as UDMA modes, there are race conditions leading to errors. The problem is generally that the Marvel chip in combination with some CF card devices will claim to perform CRC checking, but will actually not, so the host never knows that the data payload got corrupted on the way from the SATA controller to the CF card media.
Possible ways to overcome the issue, turn off all higher speed operations, limit operation to PIO0 or PIO1 mode (very slow), or choose a CF card that correctly implements the ATA CRC functionality.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
works well for me
23 Feb 2010
I have used this adapter in over 25 machines to run a Linux image on a CF card.
It works well and we have had no problems with the product.
It works well and we have had no problems with the product.
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