Mamba wrote on 2023-10-03, 07:53:
Apart from possible errors from my side, is it more reliable to use a CF card instead of a SD card?
You are probably better off using an industrial CF or DOM, since they are designed for a read/write load that a computer would place on them in an environment that only allows limited maintenance and CF's have a more rugged form factor. On the other hand, most commercial SD's are usually often designed for a low price, and the ones that are designed for phones and tablet applications usually achieve performance and longevity with features not accessible to retro PC's using sinitechi adapters. However there are a lot of different devices out there with different life spans and a lot of the life span depends on how often you swap media. If you never swap media, things will last much longer
From a performance level, everything is very similarly if connected through an ISA bus, but as you get into the VLB/PCI with ATA-3 & 4, the sinitechi devices often out perform CF's devices due to better latency and the fact that sinitechi supports early DMA modes while not every CF does. Once you get up to the UDMA 5& 6 range, solid state sata devices with a pata converter are fastest, as neither CF's or CD's can match the low latency or high throughput of a true SSD.
