Retro Notebook - what Compact Flash card?

[Grimner]

I'm going to try one of these:

cf to ide laptop

Mating it with an old, but useable Thosiba, DOS, WP 5.1 (Alt+F3 still rocks) and some CF card.
I expect this to be a quiet, shock-tolerant and low-drain package.

The question is, what sort of CF card should I be locking at? There seems to be different types and speeds. Any suggestions?

 

[jschuk]

That is a pretty neat device. Most of the ultra CF cards can sustain a 7-9MB/s transfer rate if I remember correctly. Those are the more expensive ones. The modern laptop HDD's can sustain rates around 26-37MB/s, if I remember correctly. Of course if this is an older laptop with an older HDD, then the transfer rate could be a little below 20MB/s. You would really need to lookup the specs, but I am pretty sure I am close to what the transfer rates are.
Now I do know that flash memory has a finite amount of write cycles before it starts to deterioate, I think around a 1000. Alternatively, you could put in a microdrive, but that is basically a miniature HDD. You would have to lookup the specs to see which has a higher shock tolerance, the microdrive or a laptop HDD.