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gulliver · 02 July 2015, 00:14

Oh, and another thing: Why two CF slots?

Instead it should be cheaper to manufacture a single standard IDE header. Why IDE? it is more flexible, you are not tyed to CF and its adapters. You can inexpensively connect any sort of drives and even buy cheap bidirectional sata converters, even CF adapters if you wish to. With two CF slots, you can only use memory cards, no optical media, no SSD´s, no SCSI adapters, and more importantly, it is not standard enough to become future proof.

02 July 2015, 00:14	#100
gulliver BoingBagged Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The South of nowhere Age: 46 Posts: 2,358	Oh, and another thing: Why two CF slots? Instead it should be cheaper to manufacture a single standard IDE header. Why IDE? it is more flexible, you are not tyed to CF and its adapters. You can inexpensively connect any sort of drives and even buy cheap bidirectional sata converters, even CF adapters if you wish to. With two CF slots, you can only use memory cards, no optical media, no SSD´s, no SCSI adapters, and more importantly, it is not standard enough to become future proof.