07-28-2012, 01:11 PM
Black wrote:
[quote=Chakravartin]
Perfect candidate for a Compact Flash -> IDE mod.
That would be dog slow, no?
Compared to the original HD, I doubt there'd be any observable slowdown with a 300x or faster card... and 600x cards would easily beat it.
People seldom realize how slow laptop drives are (especially Apple's bundled drives) when compared to desktop drives. I recently bit-copied a MBP's boot drive in Thunderbolt target mode and barely pulled 50MBps from it.
400x CF cards can hit 60MBps during reads.
...And CF runs cool with low power-draw.