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Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Used with a Transcend 2GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model TS2GCF133. Booted to BIOS configuration and card was detected correctly the first time. No tweaks needed in a Dell Optiplex GX240 desktop. Stock jumper settings were used, and they worked flawlessly. Silent and uses a fraction of the power of a regular hard drive. Reading and writing speed is as fast as the card and bus can handle!
Cons: The only thing I can nitpick about is the exposed and rather long circuit junctions on the back of the board. You will definitely want to mount this with screws and offsets (using the two provided and grounded holes) or wrap it in non-conductive material. Dangling it uncovered in the case would be a bad idea, especially with smaller cases like mine.
There is a built in HDD activity light, but there is no way that I can see to connect it to a case HDD activity light without modding. No big deal, these devices should have very little "HDD" activity anyways.
Other Thoughts: I installed this with a 2GB Trancend card so I could boot GeeXboX 1.2.3 and for this purpose it works like a charm. Any system that runs in RAM ought to be able to use this, and it won't kill your card due to frequent read/write cycles. Setup was just as easy as the old regular hard drive I was using for testing purposes.
By the way, this uses a small floppy power connector so make sure you have one coming from the Power Supply, or use an adapter.
This isn't the fault of the adapter, but it probably isn't a good idea to run a modern full sized OS, like Windows XP or something from it. Use a SSD for that. Typical CF cards aren't going to stand up to the abuse for very long. For OS's that run entirely from RAM such as GeeXboX, FreeNAS, etc..., these are perfect!
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Works well if you want a cheap flash hard drive
Reviewed By: yosh on 6/8/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Worked with Ubuntu 9.04 and a Transcend 8Gb CF card. Reasonable speeds.
Cons: None.
Other Thoughts: Using this setup as a cheaper (and slower) alternative for a flash based hard drive in an HTPC build.
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Great adapter
Reviewed By: evanrich on 3/24/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: Cheap, as stated, cheap SSD, works and it's bootable!
Cons: DMA questionable, i dont know
Other Thoughts: I didn't buy this on newegg, wished I had, but i needed instant gratification since it was the only piece i needed for my NAS server. IT works well, I'm using the floppy power adapter but going to try using the pin 20 setting to see if I can free up the floppy adapter for my CD rom power connector. Be careful with the floppy power plug, it sticks alot and i almost bent mine off pulling the plug off.
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Model
Brand
SYBA
Model
SD-CF-IDE-A
Spec
Type
IDE to Compact Flash
Features
Features
Specification: Board size: 2.76" x 2.48" x 0.03" (W, L, T) On-board LED indicators for power-on and compact flash access Voltage selection for +3.3V or +5V compact flash Master or slave mode selection Power input: +5V, floppy disk drive power connector Fully compatible with Compact Flash Type I, Type II, and Micro-drive 40-way (2.54mm) standard IDE connector 44-way (2mm) laptop IDE connector (optional) Mounting holes for rear bracket (optional) This adapter does NOT support hot insertion of CF cards
System Requirement: PC or Mac with one IDE connector MS Windows, Mac OS, Linux operating system
Reviewed By: Torf on 9/30/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
