X41 with CF

[erchni]

Hi has anyone tried putting a compact flash card in a X41 with a converter. I am wondering if it would work and if there is enough room for it. I know there are converters available. I yest don't know if they will work in a X41. Especially with its sata to pata interface. It should work i would think since compact flash uses pata with a different pin configuration.
And a 32 GB card is enough room for me. Here in Denmark you can get at compact flash card from Kingston with 32 GB space and 133x speed. Kingston says minimum 25 MB/s read and 20 MB/s right for 580 kr or 100$ about although i have not seen any real world test it would be faster then the standard drive especially when you take in to account the latency being under 1 ms.

[erchni]

I see this was a stupid question it has been discussed before. I am yest new to this forum and could not find it on the first few pages and there did not seem to be a search function.

[loyukfai]

Search: http://forum.thinkpads.com/search.php

Has anyone tried an SSD in the X41? *PICS*: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41568

Google site search for terms "x40 x41 cf": http://www.google.com/search?q=site:thi ... x40+x41+cf

[gongo2k1]

I see this was a stupid question it has been discussed before. I am yest new to this forum and could not find it on the first few pages and there did not seem to be a search function.

LOL. no worries.

Welcome to the group!

Last year I tried using a 8gb card, and while benchmarks showed the hard drive running faster, I personally didn't feel the performance increase justified the expense.
Besides, with the bios warning on boot, my boot time didn't decrease too much anyway.
I'm running Linux and it seems that the vast majority of people are running Windows. At least for Linux, it didn't make enough of a tangible difference for me.

I'm positive everyone else on the forum will tell you otherwise, but whatever. That's my experience with it.

[erchni]

The the harddisk has a few bad sectors and is making clicking sounds so think i will try with a CF card. Since it cant be long before my harddiks dies on me.