![]() I guess I can live with 128GB of storage on a computer from 1994. Not even 10 years and the easily available sizes multiplied over 600 times! I believe the Performa is only seeing 128GB of the 160GB drive because of the limitations of the ATA-1 standard, but that's OK. The date on the original Apple drive is 1994. The manufacture date on the 160GB drive is 2003. I just wanted a large amount of easy-to-use storage. I don't know if the compact flash would have been faster or not (SCSI would probably beat both the IDE HDD and the compact flash), but this isn't really about speed. It's sitting humming along like a champ now. In fact, I created a 2GB partition on it as boot, installed OS 8.1, then created a 100GB partition and copied a TON of stuff over to it. So I popped it into my Performa, expecting to have similar difficulties as with the compact flash cards, but lo and behold it initialized and formatted without a hitch. I found an old 160GB IDE HDD sitting around. sometimes I wonder why I persist at banging my head against a wall. So I'm going to try to partition/format the cards on my Mac Mini. ![]() I did manage to pick up a USB-to-CF adapter. The 4GB that doesn't work is a Transcend (which used to be a good name in flash storage, but now. so who knows? The 32MB card I have that works is a SanDisk. a faster rated card would indicate a better-quality/more-reliable card. It's no wonder why Apple was fond of the SCSI interface, it certainly was faster back in the day.īut. If it doesn't, you're looking at a more likely 5.2MB/s or 4.2MB/s. The ATA-1 standard, which came out just about the same time as the Performa 630CD, only offered a maximum transfer speed of 8.3MB/s - and that's assuming that the Performa's early IDE implementation even supports PIO mode 2. So a 4x would be 600kb/s, a 133x would be approx 20MB/s. BTW, those x speeds are in the same units as CD-ROM multipliers - 150kb/s. The others I have are 133x, and they don't work. ![]() The 32MB card that I have that works is the slowest card I have (type 1 at 4x). I don't think getting a faster card is going to help. SanDisk is the OG CF maker, and if you can find them, I'd go with them (properly rated of course), over any other brand. They work well in my camera, but don't work as drives well. I just remembered that I also bought some cards that looked highly rated, but they overheat or just plain don't work in my Macs Kingston re-badged Transcend I think they were. YMMV, but I've shot with a CF card in my Nikon and it dropped frames-not write them-and would sometimes just corrupt the RAW files. I originally bought them for my Nikon which shoots continuous 10 FPS at 16 MP and needs the bandwidth. That perhaps might be overkill, but it's what I have on hand ATM. My SanDisk CF cards are the Extreme line and are rated UDMA 7 | 120 MB/s with that 'video' rating of 20 (which I think is 20 minutes of 1080p footage at 29.97 or something, IDR). I have some SanDisk cards that are rock solid now constantly used as drives, but might pick up one or two to see how they compare. I've heard from others that these in particular are good used buys. ![]()
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