RetroBard wrote on 2022-04-25, 20:39:

I received the Sandisk 512 MB CF today. FDisk worked all right and I was able to format it and install MS-DOS 5.0 on it. It boots nice and quiet and I gather it’ll be more reliable than the microdrive.

Indeed they are reliable. Not only that, but it is easy to image the set up CF using WinImage .....sort of like using Ghost or similar back in the day but much more convenient.