CF to boot Linux

[Jon Pruente]

On Jan 11, 2008 12:36 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> So you're saying you find it faster to copy files from your
> harddrive<-->flash to harddrive<-->harddrive?

The difference is that the raw speed from a HDD is faster than flash,
esp. since it is being filtered through USB.  The seek times on decent
flash are pretty dang good compared to HDD.  That's where the speed
comes in as it's an order of magnitude faster in some cases.  I
wouldn't use flash for streaming A/V but it should be fine for an OS.

Jon.