On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/22/2012 03:22 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Compact-Flash seems to have almost disappeared.
Huh? Not at all. It is the mainstay of pro-level digital camera
work. It has just disappeared from consumer-shit-grade stuff because it
is "huge". Heh. (still aching from moving an RK07 last night, and
that's on the "light" side of my stuff!)
It's also very heavily used in the embedded computing industry; lots
of PC-104 (or PCI/PCIe versions of same), Mini-ITX, etc. small form-
factor motherboards available with CompactFlash slots for their main
hard drive. That whole thing where it's a legitimate ATA disk right
out of the box is its main advantage there.
It's being slowly replaced by CFast, which as I understand it has
the advantage of running as a SATA drive, but beyond that, I'm not
really sure what the difference is. I haven't really looked, but I
don't think CompactFlash is going anywhere anytime soon.
- Dave