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In Reply to: RE: Mixing hard disc drives posted by GStew on June 19, 2009 at 06:54:56
Hi Greg
i use the same device . You can easyly change cards with different configurations and windows is separated from my music storages.And Cheap!!!!.they are connected with an CF to SATA Adaptor.It's not better sonically than an external SATA Drive with external PSU , but very practical.
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As sonics said it's using an SATA to Compact Flash adapter, and the only advantage I see is less vibration from a hard disk - there's enough of that with the one with the music, and it makes the drive that has the music dedicated to it - ie put Windows on a different drive, so that random Windows disk access won't interfere with cPlay's access to the music drive. I'm planning to have the drives in a separate box later but in the meantime there's only one 2.5" disk spinning.
Daniel Gauthier
Montreal Canada
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L, E7200, 2 x 1 gig HyperX LL Memory, Antec SLP-450WR PSU, WinXP sp3 on Compact Flash Drive, Jili@ Analog Out direct to Electrocompaniet Ampliwire II Amplifier, Apogée Convergence Speakers
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Can you guys tell us which brand and model CF card you are using? Some of my research on this subject is saying a fixed one is recommended.
Brad
I use a Kingston 4 gig elite series compact flash card. I have had no problems so far and have rebooted the pc at least a hundred times.
Daniel Gauthier
Montreal Canada
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L, E7200, 2 x 1 gig HyperX LL Memory, Antec SLP-450WR PSU, WinXP sp3 on Compact Flash Drive, Jili@ Analog Out direct to Electrocompaniet Ampliwire II Amplifier, Apogée Convergence Speakers
For your Kingston Elite what file system did you format with, FAT32 or NTFS?
Brad
NTFS
Daniel Gauthier
Montreal Canada
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L, E7200, 2 x 1 gig HyperX LL Memory, Antec SLP-450WR PSU, WinXP sp3 on Compact Flash Drive, Jili@ Analog Out direct to Electrocompaniet Ampliwire II Amplifier, Apogée Convergence Speakers
Thanks Daniel for your help.
I had sucess with this CF adapter
http://www.syba.com/index.php?controller=Product&action=Info&Id=838
and your recommended Kingston Elite 4gb CF card. Also I think the drives shows up as fixed since its location is under hard disk drives in MY Computer.
What I like about this route is if a new revision comes out you could leave this CF card alone and install the new revision on a new Kingston Elite which are very cheap!!!
Oh yeah, boot up time is right under 30 seconds without any optimizations or bios changes yet.
Thanks again, Brad
I'm glad it worked well! I have an older version of that CF card so it takes longer to boot.
Daniel Gauthier
Montreal Canada
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L, E7200, 2 x 1 gig HyperX LL Memory, Antec SLP-450WR PSU, WinXP sp3 on Compact Flash Drive, Jili@ Analog Out direct to Electrocompaniet Ampliwire II Amplifier, Apogée Convergence Speakers
I bought mine from this guy and paid extra for priotity shipping, it arrived in 3 days.
Brad
ebay store
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Yogi-Computers-Inc__W0QQ_armrsZ1
Thanks, that's allot cheaper than the ones I was looking at.
Brad
The places I have looked for the kingston elite showed they were out of stock so I explored some other options.
I found a new open box CF to sataII that included a Seagate ST1 5gb CF for 20 bucks shipped on ebay.
Link to adapter
http://www.syba.com/index.php?controller=Product&action=Info&Id=838
This adapter has the option to use 3.3v or 5v with a jumper with the source power from a floppy molex (wish it had a sata power inlet).
Link to Seagate CF
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/ce/ST1%20Series/ST1%20Series/100325578h.pdf
and a review
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/print/seagate-st1-5gb.html
Didn't know this till I looked it up that the seagate is an actual HDD at 3600rpm with 2mb cache.
I went ahead and purchased a 8gb ST1.2 for 17 bucks to try out too. At these price points I am hoping this works out. I have yet to build the cMP yet but have purchased all of the parts and am just waiting for arrival. Will let yall know how this works out.
Brad
Just a follow up of the seagate drives. After installing the OS on these drives I kept getting an error before Xp loaded saying "Your System has no paging file, or the paging file is too small". From what I could find the fix for this would require the purchase of an MFT editor so I ditched the effort. The other negative with this drive was it showed up as removable storage. Time to sell these drives on eBay.
Brad
Another solution is to get the Sata harddisks external with external psu.
I use the 'Sharkoon Sata quickport DUO'. It can has own psu and can handle 2 hdd's. Very easy.
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