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Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2025
I ordered this card to replace a failing hard disk in an old 486 for DOS gaming. It will provide all the space I need for those old gems of games I grew up with.At up to 40Mbps it's not going to win any speed records, even for a Compact Flash, but it beats a PATA/IDE drive and won't have the risk of a spinning disk dying on me (again). I understand the "Industrial" drives are the easiest to write a bootable image to, so I was specifically looking for one like this for my project.
Christopher D.
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
TL;DRThe good: The card is the stated capacity.The bad: Slow write speed.Unknown: Read/Write durability, UDMA mode, Industrial temp range, and fixed disk mode.30 MB/s sequential read of the advertised 40 MB/s. The label on the compact flash card shows 20 MB/s. Tested speed of the CF card at about 60% or 12 MB/s. Random writes are bad. This would have been a 5-star product if labeled with a 10.I have not checked which UDMA mode it operates at/supports. The retro computer that I currently have to use this on only supports PIO 4. I will have to set up something newer with UDMA support. The card is fast enough to saturate UDMA 2 or PIO 6 or lower. Devices that support and transfer at UDMA 3 and above this card will be a bottleneck.I have not yet verified if this is in fixed disk mode as most Industrial Compact Flash cards are or if it is set to removable storage like most Comercial Compact Flash cards. Read/write durability and physical durability are also unknown at this time.This would be useful for older DSLRs that do 1080p or lower video. It will also be great storage for i486 and older computers with IDE adapter.Test finished without errors.You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.Writing speed: 12.4 MByte/sReading speed: 28.0 MByte/sH2testw v1.4------------------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 8.0.6 x64 (C) 2007-2024 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/------------------------------------------------------------------------------* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes[Read] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 30.162 MB/s [ 28.8 IOPS] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 30.178 MB/s [ 28.8 IOPS] RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 12.832 MB/s [ 3132.8 IOPS] RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 9.720 MB/s [ 2373.0 IOPS] [Write] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 12.162 MB/s [ 11.6 IOPS] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 13.210 MB/s [ 12.6 IOPS] RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 0.170 MB/s [ 41.5 IOPS] RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 0.169 MB/s [ 41.3 IOPS] Profile: Default Test: 512 MiB (x9) [E: 0% (0/977MiB)] Mode: [Admin] Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec Date: 2025/01/07 19:08:58 OS: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 [10.0 Build 26100] (x64)
Kevin C.
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2025
This 1GiB CF card works as expected, but does not meet the advertised performance. For my application using it in place of a SATA hard drive in a vintage PC, the performance is acceptable.
TRN - x86dreams
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2025
got this CF card to use in some old computer equipment. formats fine, works fine. no complaints.
M. LeBlanc
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2025
Not a lot can be said about a memory card other than it works as it should. I am using it in an older model digital multi track recorder and it formats and saves as it should. I believe it performs true to the claimed specs so all is well.
ZYQ
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2024
Compact Flash (CF) cards are used in many ways. My 20 year old Canon EOS camera uses CF for storage. I think it's also used in industrial applications. But I use it in an IDE/CF adapter to emulate hard drives with vintage motherboards because it can be made bootable with any compatible O/S.This card was installed and formatted on an early Pentium motherboard with Intel-430FX chipset and Award 4.51PG BIOS. I set it to autodetect the hard drive and it quickly presented three CHS options, all at 1025MB:993/32/63 LBA1986/16/63 Normal993/32/63 LargeI selected LBA, which it recommended and is usually best.Attached is a photo showing this CF card booting to MSDOS 6.22 and showing full capacity. The automated MSDOS installation didn't work — tried it twice. Then I tried installing manually (FDISK, Format c:/s) and it worked without a hitch. Then I retried the automated format telling it to replace the existing O/S (which I had just installed) and that worked fine. This was not a problem with this CF card, but just one of the many idiosyncrasies of retro computing. So if you're trying to use CF cards to emulate hard drives, sometimes you have to set them up manually.I'm giving it 5 stars because it is working exactly as it should.
S.D.
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2024
GR8
Kevin Bowling
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2024
I'm not sure what they are doing to call it an industrial card since there are no detailed specifications on the temperature range or write endurance.. but in simple use it seems fine.
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