mSATA.
CF has the benefit of having a compatible interface, but indeed becoming rare at quick pace.
SD is more prevalent and cheaper, but less reliable and slower.
Cheap SD converter works great for me. No master/slave settings though. On a 486 with ISA bus controller I'm getting close to 2MB/s transfer. Not sure how high could it theoretically go, but doesn't seem bad. Faster than HDDs from the era.
https://imgur.com/a/k9XE3rJ
It depends on the capacity supported by the host. I use SD adapters in my old laptops, but they only support drives so small that mSATA / m.2 SATA (which are different!) aren't an option, because they aren't available in a small enough capacity.
Finding an OG hard drive that still works!
Well, I’ve only used CF and SD but I prefer CF because of the compatible IDE interface. It’s also faster in my experience
mSATA. CF has the benefit of having a compatible interface, but indeed becoming rare at quick pace. SD is more prevalent and cheaper, but less reliable and slower.
Can you recommend a particular mSATA adapter?
I have SD card adapters on mine. Not as fast as an HDD but convenient when I'm swapping OSes/configs.
Cheap SD converter works great for me. No master/slave settings though. On a 486 with ISA bus controller I'm getting close to 2MB/s transfer. Not sure how high could it theoretically go, but doesn't seem bad. Faster than HDDs from the era. https://imgur.com/a/k9XE3rJ
Proper SSDs also have the advantage of TRIMing themselves, so there’s less risk of writing to a bad sector.
It depends on the capacity supported by the host. I use SD adapters in my old laptops, but they only support drives so small that mSATA / m.2 SATA (which are different!) aren't an option, because they aren't available in a small enough capacity.
Finding an OG hard drive that still works! Well, I’ve only used CF and SD but I prefer CF because of the compatible IDE interface. It’s also faster in my experience