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Syba IDE/PATA to CF Adapter with Bracket Connects Compact Flash to 2.5 3.5-Inch IDE Host Interface Hard Drive SD-CF-IDE-BR
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Connector Type | Component |
Color | Black |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 6 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches |
Brand | Syba |
Item Weight | 0.06 Kilograms |
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- Product Type: Computer Component
- Package Quantity: 1
- Product Dimensions: 21.59 cms (L) x 15.494 cms (W) x 3.302 cms (H)
- Country Of Origin: China
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Brand | Syba |
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Series | SYBA MULTIMEDIA INC |
Item model number | SD-CF-IDE-BR |
Item Weight | 2.11 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 6 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 6 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches |
Color | Black |
Manufacturer | Syba |
ASIN | B001JTO782 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | November 1, 2008 |
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Best Sellers Rank | #242 in Internal Hard Drives |
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IDE to CF Adapter, with Bracket, Connects to 3.5” IDE Host Interface
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Customers like the performance, read/write performance, ease of use, quality and value of the electronic adapter. They mention that it works well, it's fast and that it'll speed up read operations. They also appreciate the versatility.
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Customers like the performance of the adapter. For example, they mention it works well, has helpful indicator lights, and is great for embedded applications like Linux. It works great with vintage computers and as a solid state drive. Windows 2000 works great on CF cards and never failed so far.
"...The computer with this in it has been running 24/7 for 6 months! Still working great!..." Read more
"...Windows 2000 works great on CF cards since it doesn't run background processes the way Windows 98 and XP + do. MS-DOS is great on one of these too...." Read more
"...I'm happy to say it works perfectly in my 20 year-old retro computer (an old AMD computer from 1997)...." Read more
"...It supports variety of large cards. Works nicely with SanDisk Ultra 4 GB (30 MB/s) on my little server and never failed so far...." Read more
Customers like the read/write performance of the adapter. They mention that it's fast, and helps speed up an older system. They also mention that the random access speed is very fast, resulting in faster read operations and file transfers.
"...Yes it reads from the CF card constantly and super fast no issues. I'm pretty sure this device will outlive the CF card." Read more
"...hard drive so I went with thus and a 4gb compact flash card and it os so fast. I recommend 👌..." Read more
"...Read/write performance is acceptable. Could be even better with faster cards (but it costs much more bucks!)...." Read more
"...of 24MB/s. Booting is pretty snappy for Windows 98, application and game loading is acceptable and writing to the card appears to be smooth without..." Read more
Customers find the adapter easy to use. They mention it's compatible, fast, and ready to work out of the box. Some appreciate the brief instructions and the small footprint. Overall, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"Easy to install, works without any jumper changes or modifications. You just put in a CF card and format the card like you would a new hard drive...." Read more
"...how easy it is to learn and how much you can do with it...." Read more
"...The BIOS accepts this with no problems at all...." Read more
"...Finally, Windows 95 installed with no issue...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the quality of the adapter. They mention that it is a good, strong, solid piece of circuitry. Some reviewers also say that the adaptor works great and is stable.
"...The overall build quality seems good and the CF card rails are deep enough so I don't feel like I'm going to bend the pins...." Read more
"...They're small, convenient, and best of all - quiet...." Read more
"...This little beauty solved my problem and the NAS has been very stable. Given the price, I would easily do this again." Read more
"...flash card and it is BLISTERINGLY FAST and I love it - good strong solid piece of circuitry here and fits in the metal bracket slot at the back..." Read more
Customers appreciate the value of the electronic adapter. They say it is a very nice inexpensive device, with nice construction for the price.
"...Summing up, it a a very nice inexpensive device." Read more
"...This is a great and cheap alternative to IDEDOM as they are expensive (I had one from APACER) and no way to upgrade!..." Read more
"...The pros:+ Reasonably priced at $9.95 with free shipping when I bought mine.+ 3 on board LED - card detect, activity & power...." Read more
"...Other than that - very zippy, great deal." Read more
Customers like the versatility of the adapter. They say it's a great replacement for an older hard drive, IDE hard drive and a decent upgrade for older and newer computers. Customers also say it’s the best alternative to SSD's.
"...They're the best alternative to SSD's considering that IDE bandwidth will not let you take full advantage of SATA speeds anyway...." Read more
"...It's a great replacement for a older hard drive that may have died." Read more
"...implementing wear-leveling it makes this adapter a decent upgrade for older and newer computers...." Read more
"These are the best for old machines. I have must six of these now." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the compatibility of the adapter. They mention that their PC wouldn't recognize it, it's not compatible with the device they bought it for, and that MSoft doesn't program to the CPU.
"...on something you looked atc. MSoft doesn't program to the CPU because it's hard to do, requires high levels of..." Read more
"...For example, sometimes the BIOS on my system fails to detect the drive which is solved by rebooting...." Read more
"was not compatible with the device I bought it for..." Read more
"...The PC wouldn’t recognize it no matter what. I gave up and sent it back for a refund...." Read more
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I'm happy to say it works perfectly in my 20 year-old retro computer (an old AMD computer from 1997). I'm using this card with a SanDisk 16 GB CF and, unlike some of the super-cheap cards, this DOES send the HDD activity indicator to the motherboard so the LED does work properly. The overall build quality seems good and the CF card rails are deep enough so I don't feel like I'm going to bend the pins. Inserting and removing the card is smooth. The slot opening does come rather close to the edge of my case's back bracket but I didn't run into any clearance issues with my particular PC case.
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017
I'm happy to say it works perfectly in my 20 year-old retro computer (an old AMD computer from 1997). I'm using this card with a SanDisk 16 GB CF and, unlike some of the super-cheap cards, this DOES send the HDD activity indicator to the motherboard so the LED does work properly. The overall build quality seems good and the CF card rails are deep enough so I don't feel like I'm going to bend the pins. Inserting and removing the card is smooth. The slot opening does come rather close to the edge of my case's back bracket but I didn't run into any clearance issues with my particular PC case.
By using a CF card as a HDD it should work identically to the current style, but expensive,
SSD (solid state disks). After all, a CF , SD, or any memory (2) is just like SSD (3).
But I goofed when it came to the sex of the connector. It says, "direct insert" and
I failed. That means I, and you if you buy this, will have to insert this adapter
directly into the IDE header on the motherboard.
It's possible I can get a male to male 40 pin or 44 pin adapter to make this fit an
IDE cable. I have an IDE device in my CD Rom so why would I screw myself and limit
one header to this one device? Because I was poor in my assessment of what I wanted
and what I had.
My motherboard, and many current mobos may not have an IDE header at all. If you do
have an IDE header you may have one instead of two. One header can support 2 devices.
Normally a CD ROM is an IDE device (I think). so if you have 1 IDE header and want
your CD ROM to work then you need to get the opposite sex adapter.
The opposite sex adapter will have male pins on the IDE connector so that it can plug
into the IDE cable.
There is another consideration which just came to me. When using IDE devices on 1 cable
the slowest device is the limiting device to the overall read and write speed.
NOTICE: I'm wrong. On Wikipedia it says that the speeds are not limited by the slowest
device. See IDE SPEEDS there and see the section:
Two devices on one cable - speed impact
The only impact, of speed, may be if both devices are in operation at the same time.
That's not very likely for me.
Wikipedia has a 'Compact Flash Interface' section. Look at their photo of the device sex
made to plug into a cable and see how this device, that I bought here, is the opposite
sex. IF you want to plug this into a cable (I'd figure that's the easy way plus you
get 2 devices on 1 cable) you'll want to use the type shown in the wikipedia article.
When shopping, here, you'll want to look for MALE connection pins and avoid FEMALE or
'Direct connection' if you want to use an IDE cable with 2 devices.. this and another
like a CD ROM.
When I get mine going I'll try to post the results of speed and so on.
It should speed up read operations because the random access should be very fast.
Loading small files, like opening text files (for notes) should be much faster than
going to the HDD. I'll try to report it here:
Good luck. Don't forget to check out what you REALLY want to connect this to inside
your computer before buying it.
(1) If you use Solid state memory you should see faster start up times for small files.
SSD (solid state memory devices) are about $1.00 / GB but this is the same thing if you
pop in a CF card. Why not try it on the cheap ?
(2) SD, CF, and SSD all work the same way. They store data without the need for refreshing
the data (like dynamic memory). So once it's stored (using power) the power can be removed
and the data stays for 100 years. SSDs DO have some 'wear leveling' but that's not a
serious problem if you're just trying this out to see how it works for you.
(3)
In SSD - Wear leveling is for ppl who are storing, rewriting and erasing lots of gb of
data all day all of the time. In a year or two or 1,000,000 cycles some bits stop saving
properly so wear leveling circuites spread the risk over more bits .
FOr this device just defrag it or reformat and it's the same effect. You're hiding
bad bits and using the good ones. If any bit doesn't work you'll get a write error
but I think Vista has built in write error checking and fixing.
This setup is really for 2 kinds of ppl.
a. The person who's wanting to speed up computer by adding 'lots' of memory where fast
access times will speed up small files opening. Caching of pages might be speeded up too.
You'll have to decide what goes on to this 'drive' if you're speeding up your computer
b. The other use is when someone wants to boot up from the CF card. while XP might
boot faster it could boot slower too. Unless your memory card is very fast a HDD will
stream large files (10mb, 20mb) fasteer than a slow CF card. But a CF card might have
access times of 0.1 ms while a HDD is 12 ms or 120x slower. Thus a 10kb .ini file
for your browser will be loaded in less than 1ms and the HDD won't have even found it
by then. But a 10mb load of the browser, itself, might run at 133mb/ sec after the
HDD found it. The memory card might stream it (to the cpu) at 1/10 that speed.
so some files, the smaller ones, will be the ones that 'run' faster from CF cards.
It's a bit like having data in memory when reading from a CF card.. that is until you
get up to where you want more than, about 100kb. then the data rate looks slow compared
to a HDD.
If you're serious about using a CF card, or SSD to speed up your computer then
seriously read up on which files should be on the CF or SSD memory.
Lastly let me poke MSoft. They don't know how to program and the proof is in the
way their files are organized. In DOS days a programmer had very little memory
to work with , 640kb (or less). So programs HAD to run within that amount. Because
of those constraints one way to accomodate that space was to talk to the CPU directly.
Today MSoft talks to the CPU through several layers of interpreters each of which slow
down the process of doing things. When you add the fact that besides doing what you want
Msoft is trying to
a. get cookie information sent to their subscriber base (the companies who pay for your
information
b. MSoft is also offering back doors so windows and 'offers' can pop up if a cookie hits
on something you looked at
c. MSoft doesn't program to the CPU because it's hard to do, requires high levels of
commitment and intelligence and the financial returns are lower ..
in contrast pick a program like ACDSEE / uTorrent / Opera Browser /
while they don't necessarily use 'direct to cpu' (a1) programming they aren't focused
on selling you something thus their software is streamlined, works smoother and better
and faster.
(a1) writing to the CPU is called 'assembly language' Find any program written in assembly
language. Cell phones use programming similar to assembly language. Look how fast and
efficient computational devices they are. If you take the time to study the history of
assembly programming from about 1982 when the 8080 CPU came out you'll be super surprised
how easy it is to learn and how much you can do with it.
One use of this CF card is to load an entire operating system into the 2, 4, or 8 gb
and load it from the card. The advantage is .. suppose you had your own version of
Windows or Linux. IF you plug in your CF card into a memory slot (they use USB connections)
or into the IDE (like this device works) you can set the bios to load from the CF card
whatever version, settings, or setup of Windows or Linux that you, personally have devised.
It's a great way to take your personal setup with you where ever you go. The limitations
are that the computer, you boot up, must be able to boot from 1. the memory card slot or
2.a disk drive (but remember you have to be able to get TO the drive inside the case so
as to plug in this card with the CF memory)
Last note: If you like the ideas above watch Google and what they do. They're rich
and sharp enough to know to program in assembly language. If their OS comes out
for smart phones AND for PCs .. AND if it's programmed in assembly language you may
see the beginning of a very new interesting WORLD. Every device from your watch to
tiny devices like ear rings may have complete PCs in them taking data and reporting
everything from your health to .. well who knows. it's all about making the CPU
respond quickly by using assembly language, that removes the need for lots of memory,
and makes computers 10x and 100x faster.
enjoy. be back later if I can.
Why would someone build a CF-to-IDE adapter knowing that it would be a replacement for a HD but not give it the ability to PLUG-IN in place of the outgoing IDE?!?!?
Did work as advertised though, but still kept it at one star because it will forever sit on my shelf.
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As such, both work equally -- DMA mode cannot be enabled in Windows 98 SE, however, UDMA mode works by default in Windows 2000. My guess is W98 is just more picky with regards to mainboard drivers for the IDE BUS. No hassles otherwise. Works as advertised.
Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2020
As such, both work equally -- DMA mode cannot be enabled in Windows 98 SE, however, UDMA mode works by default in Windows 2000. My guess is W98 is just more picky with regards to mainboard drivers for the IDE BUS. No hassles otherwise. Works as advertised.