Runaway good experience ... has 'fixed disk' mode

Had the CF card bought as SSD replacement for my getting on in days subnotebook (Thinkpad).
Unfortunately, it was not suitable for the task as a system drive, Reading went with 32MB / s and write with 16MB / s on an IDE-CF adapter in DMA mode.
This is actually enough, but 2.5 "IDE hard drives can as more and more speed I wanted to. I've then a Sandisk Extreme Professional fetched as 'System board', although it has made a lot more problems in the installation, but was faster

Positives:
The CF card is when connected to an IDE adapter into the 'fixed disk' mode, so that Windows can also start it and detects multiple partitions (the 'Removable Media' mode, Windows only recognize the first partition).
That is to say, because many CF cards no longer support and so helpless in front of the computer can and wonders why he does not boot (I had, for example, in a server system with a CF card to an IDE adapter as / boot XD ).

The price is good. Other trademarks are asking ever more.

Negatives:
If I noticed nothing

Conclusion:
Well suited for embedded devices, with sufficient speed at a fair price.
My card is used now as a data grave in the same notebook.