Please, everyone, for the love of data: use CF.
That makes no sense. WHAT is wrong with SD?
What speed is your 4GB card? Just trying to figure out if I can get away with the slowest and cheapest one. XD
The cheap, slow one will do just great. I have a generic card in my A600, which costed nothing, and works fine. As Linde said, the IDE interface is kinda slow already.
For temporary storage, I agree, but if you truly love data and want to keep it readable for more than a few decades it'd better be burnt on a CD or DVD and stored safely.
Optical media deteriorates faster than solid state cards, I think the best solution to backups is stockpiling hard drives. If well kept, they can last a loooong time (I only retired my A600's hard drive yesterday, after 17 years of faithful service, and all its data is still intact)
Last edited by akira^8GB (Sep 16, 2010 6:43 pm)