[Discuss] compact flash drive versus USB flash drive?

[Alan W. Irwin]

As you know from my previous post, I am interested in buying the EES-5718
(http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/EES-5718.cfm) micro PC as a high-end
X-terminal/thin client to remotely display 3D applications.  This micro PC
has one "CompactFlash Type I/II socket" designated for a solid state disk
(SSD), and 4 USB 2.0 ports.

Thus, it looks like I will have a choice of buying a compact flash card or a
USB flash drive to use as my SSD.

I notice that the prices of compact flash cards and USB flash drives are
roughly the same ($20-$30) per gigabyte.  Does it matter which I buy or does
one format have some known advantages/disadvantages compared to the other?

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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