I'm thinking about installing Windows XP on a CF card to stop HD noise. Will it run faster?
2007-03-02 02:01:49 · 3 answers · asked by alex 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
To the answerer who said "the card is going to be MUCH smaller"... that's bogus, I have enough money to buy as large a CF card as I need.
Thanks
2007-03-02 02:27:58 · update #1
In general, modern Hard Drives are significantly faster than Compact Flash drives.
Even worse, for certain Compact Flash cards, the more capacity they have, the slower they can be to retrieve data from.
You can certainly find CF cards that are large enough to install an operating system, but the performance on them would likely be horribly slow compared to using a hard drive.
As a result, I would not recommend doing this for a home pc. For certain specific applications where slow performance is not a concern, then the CF install might be viable, but 99.99% of users I know would not tolerate it.
PS: New HD's should be ultra-quiet if they are working properly. If you're experiencing any Hard disk noise, it may indicate that you have a bad hard drive. In addition, the cost per gigabyte of an HD is a lot cheaper than the cost per gigabyte of Compact Flash cards.
2007-03-02 02:38:42 · answer #1 · answered by kalendraf 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can install and run Windows from a CF card. However because the card is going to be MUCH smaller than a real hard drive, you will be very limited in how many other programs you can add. Everything else will probably end up on the PCs hard drive, due to lack of space on the CF card. So you are back to hard drive noise again. Plus with the OS on one drive and the programs on another, it may running slower. Also not all programs will work if installed somewhere besides the OS drive.
You could run Windows from your CF card, but it is not very pratical to do....
2007-03-02 10:23:28 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Flash is slower and much smaller capasity than standard hard drives. It dosent matter how much you're willing to spend on it either, the largest one currently being made is 16 gigs. Now thats more than enough to install windows a dozens of other programs on, but standard hard drives go up to 750gigs or more.
2007-03-02 17:01:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋