<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Is there anything I should know about CF cards? Are there any type<br> that I should get which is quicker than the other. Will a CF card be<br>
much quicker or the same as an IDE HDD for boot up?</blockquote><div><br>To add some anecdotal evidence, my heavily-used CF-based frontend has been performing very well. It is completely silent (zero moving parts) and I find bootup times and general performance comparable to a hard drive-based frontend. I didn't do anything special to the file system (it's ext3, and has a small swap partition) and thus far have had no trouble. Setting it up like this may well not be the best idea, as others have said.<br>
<br>Having read some other posts on this list recently, if I were to do it again I would be tempted to give it a try with no local storage at all, and boot over the network.<br><br>Mike.<br></div></div>