Use of CF as a PATA SSD boot drive?

[smashkenazi]

Are there any reasons not to use CF as a boot drive in a T42?

Johan didn't discuss this when he looked at adding an SSD to his machine(s) except to get rid of the 30 second boot delay. Now that densities and speeds are increasing, aren't these the PATA SSD disks that we've been unable to find?

Will frequent writing destroy it?

Thanks

[twistero]

Because random writes are painfully slow on many CF cards. Most CF cards are designed for photography use, therefore heavily optimized for large sequential writes, which in turn makes random write performance pitiful. Combine with Windows's tendency to do lots of small random writes, and you get a stuttering, unusable system. Linux may fare better in general.