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      tritron
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      We need list of compact flash that work well with pfsense. Ebay is full of cf I see may for around 10. I see number of high speed cf cards and industral grade for around 10 dollars.

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        cmb
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        Any CF will work with pfSense, but the question is what CF will work with your chosen hardware. Some systems are pickier than others there. Generally I would stick with Kingston or Sandisk, those are two that are very widely used with a wide range of hardware and I've never heard of any compatibility issues. I have a few no name cheap CF cards that all work fine too, though I've also heard others here unable to get certain hardware to boot from or work properly with some off brand cards.

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Using Transcend cards here, 133X type. No problems.
          It's worth noting that there is almost no point in getting a super fast card. pfSense disables DMA in the NanoBSD images so they all run at PIO speeds.
          Also of note is that DMA is not disabled in Nano+VGA images which can cause trouble, is this a bug?

          Steve

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          • _Adrian__
            _Adrian_
            last edited by

            Why not use a CF to SATA bridge ?

            If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              You can. Why do you ask?

              Steve

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              • _Adrian__
                _Adrian_
                last edited by

                @stephenw10:

                You can. Why do you ask?

                Steve

                SATA is a lot faster than USB :)

                If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  That's true.  ;)
                  However one of the advantages of CF is that it's interface is IDE compatible so you need only passive components to connect it and it can be addressed as an IDE harddrive without any drivers. That's why a lot of appliances have a CF card slot on board.
                  If you are booting from USB you may as well just use a USB memory stick which is much cheaper per GB.

                  Steve

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                  • _Adrian__
                    _Adrian_
                    last edited by

                    For newer devices that don't have IDE support this might just pull a premium instead of SSD's ;)

                    Also…
                    I seen somewhere a dual card unit that runs RAID between the 2 cards and there is also a DP SAS version available :)
                    Was thinking for a while DUAL 64GB or 128GB / CF Adapter in a Raid 5 configuration across 12 DP SAS drives

                    Edit:
                    Went looking and...
                    http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-to-Dual-CF-Compact-Flash-SSD-RAID-Adapter-/270990102863?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f1844d14f

                    :)

                    /hijack

                    If it ain't broken, fix it till it is :P

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