Industrial SanDisk compact flash card

[Jim Belant]

I recently tried an industrial SanDisk compact flash card. The retail
cards I've been receiving don't work with the set-removable-bit-program,
and SanDisk tech support told me even their new utility wouldn't work
with my new cards.

They did state the industrial cards would work, so I tried one.

Wow!

The industrial cards are much faster than the retail cards. Boot up
times are much shorter. I have PIO mode set to auto in the device bios.
For the retail cards, the device chooses PIO mode 1. For the industrial
cards, PIO mode 4 is selected. I can manually select PIO mode 4 for the
retail cards, but they are still not as fast.

Boot time from start of POST to Windows screen
Retail 144 seconds
Industrial 79 seconds

Both set to PIO mode 4. My device has a fairly long POST time, and the
sample size is one for each type of card (statistically invalid), but it
still demonstrates quite a difference.

Jim Belant

 

[Jim Belant]

So how much $$ ??

We pay a little under $50US for 256MB at Costco. I wonder what's the
premium for industrial?

The cheapest I found was $108 for 256MB industrial (standard temperature
range). We were paying about $55 for the 256MB retail cards.

I purchased it from here:

http://www.pc-cardmart.com/

Jim Belant

 

[Tom Salicos]

So how much $$ ??

We pay a little under $50US for 256MB at Costco. I wonder what's the
premium for industrial?

Tom

 

[sean]

Here is a CF solution that I have just found; we plan on trying it. It will
allow you to use any CF and plug it into an IDE slot; apparently the CF will
be seen as a fixed drive.
http://store.ituner.com/ituner/emstcfl.html

Sean Gahan

 

[David Ditch]

I"d be surprised if this makes the drive read as non-removable.
I use something similar to format to NTFS and copy my pre FBA images onto my
CF cards.
Without setting the CF card to non-removable, I can not format to NTFS and
EWF does not work (so far)

David

 

[sean]

David,
We currently use laptop drives in our units, but we also have another
application/platform that we are just starting to work on and they will
require CF. Can you give me more information on your method.

Thanks,

Sean Gahan