Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

[Tanstaafl]

On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>  wrote:
>> Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most
>> stable - SD or CF...

> Ultimately they both probably have the same flash chips inside of them
> so if your main concern is reliability, I don't think it matters.
>
> If your concern is performance, CF seems to be used in more
> "professional" applications and more high-speed CF cards are readily
> available.
>
> In either case I would suggest avoiding the cheap no-name brands.
> Sandisk Extreme Pro is likely the fastest card you can buy (of either
> CF or SD form factor), it is available up to 100MB/sec write speeds,
> but of course your card reader/host needs to support speeds like that.
> Sandisk also routinely has more than 10x the random I/O performance of
> most of the other brands which is important when using it on a
> computer and not in a linear recording device (photos/video).

Thanks Paul, that's all pretty much what I'd concluded as well from my 
research...

I went with the 4GB SanDisk Ultra though (30MB/s), since these will only 
be used to boot the VMWare hypervisor (which runs fully in RAM once it 
is booted)...

Now I'm looking forward to seeing them in action this weekend... :)