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Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
But so far, this Syba's controller has presented every CF card to Windows as Fixed instead of Removable including cards including recalcitrant Lexar UDMA Pro Series from 233 to 400x along with the friendlier Transcend that Addonics always mounted as removable.
Just successfully installed Server 2008 DC onto an antiquated 32GB 233 Lexar, installed Windows 8 Pro onto a 400x Transcend without the usual hiccups and crashes setup.exe vomits over removable disks. Whether in the SATA port or the USB slot, they mount as fixed and it makes experimenting with Windows at better than spindle speeds a reality that nerdinga's and boomerangers insist aren't as fast as true SSD's which may or may not be true since unoptimized Windows can stress and waste any SSD worse than the NJ Governors airplane.
[[ASIN:B000OU7EQE Crucial 8Gb Lexar Media Professional Udma 300X Compactflash Cf8Gb-300-380]] SSD and adapter costing less than $40 total, the setup runs as fast as a SATA2 7200 RPM drive but uses less battery but creates more heat from a CPU kept busy by a responsive disk.
Anyone who's tried installing Windows onto "removable media" has learned the lessons and hassles of workarounds such as the Hitachi CFADisk.sys drivers, or duping the install process by launching on a VHD to be interrupted and replicated to CF cards and the rest of the bs like substituting Embedded versions with their own unique bugs.
But so far, this Syba's controller has presented every CF card to Windows as Fixed instead of Removable including cards including recalcitrant Lexar UDMA Pro Series from 233 to 400x along with the friendlier Transcend that Addonics always mounted as removable.
Just successfully installed Server 2008 DC onto an antiquated 32GB 233 Lexar, installed Windows 8 Pro onto a 400x Transcend without the usual hiccups and crashes setup.exe vomits over removable disks. Whether in the SATA port or the USB slot, they mount as fixed and it makes experimenting with Windows at better than spindle speeds a reality that nerdinga's and boomerangers insist aren't as fast as true SSD's which may or may not be true since unoptimized Windows can stress and waste any SSD worse than the NJ Governors airplane.
Crucial 8Gb Lexar Media Professional Udma 300X Compactflash Cf8Gb-300-380 SSD and adapter costing less than $40 total, the setup runs as fast as a SATA2 7200 RPM drive but uses less battery but creates more heat from a CPU kept busy by a responsive disk.
But so far, this Syba's controller has presented every CF card to Windows as Fixed instead of Removable including cards including recalcitrant Lexar UDMA Pro Series from 233 to 400x along with the friendlier Transcend that Addonics always mounted as removable.
Just successfully installed Server 2008 DC onto an antiquated 32GB 233 Lexar, installed Windows 8 Pro onto a 400x Transcend without the usual hiccups and crashes setup.exe vomits over removable disks. Whether in the SATA port or the USB slot, they mount as fixed and it makes experimenting with Windows at better than spindle speeds a reality that nerdinga's and boomerangers insist aren't as fast as true SSD's which may or may not be true since unoptimized Windows can stress and waste any SSD worse than the NJ Governors airplane.
Crucial 8Gb Lexar Media Professional Udma 300X Compactflash Cf8Gb-300-380 SSD and adapter costing less than $40 total, the setup runs as fast as a SATA2 7200 RPM drive but uses less battery but creates more heat from a CPU kept busy by a responsive disk.
It presents CF cards as Fixed Media to Windows setup, so no more hassles and Windows Embedded tricks to install normal versions
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
Anyone who's tried installing Windows onto "removable media" has learned the lessons and hassles of workarounds such as the Hitachi CFADisk.sys drivers, or duping the install process by launching on a VHD to be interrupted and replicated to CF cards and the rest of the bs like substituting Embedded versions with their own unique bugs.Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
But so far, this Syba's controller has presented every CF card to Windows as Fixed instead of Removable including cards including recalcitrant Lexar UDMA Pro Series from 233 to 400x along with the friendlier Transcend that Addonics always mounted as removable.
Just successfully installed Server 2008 DC onto an antiquated 32GB 233 Lexar, installed Windows 8 Pro onto a 400x Transcend without the usual hiccups and crashes setup.exe vomits over removable disks. Whether in the SATA port or the USB slot, they mount as fixed and it makes experimenting with Windows at better than spindle speeds a reality that nerdinga's and boomerangers insist aren't as fast as true SSD's which may or may not be true since unoptimized Windows can stress and waste any SSD worse than the NJ Governors airplane.
[[ASIN:B000OU7EQE Crucial 8Gb Lexar Media Professional Udma 300X Compactflash Cf8Gb-300-380]] SSD and adapter costing less than $40 total, the setup runs as fast as a SATA2 7200 RPM drive but uses less battery but creates more heat from a CPU kept busy by a responsive disk.
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