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Awesome. I've been looking for a solution that makes my PC take 20 minutes to boot the OS

I don't get it either. All this can be done with a standard CF reader. And CF? SDHC is where it's at now.

SDHC would have to reach class 90 to match a 600x CF. 100MB/sec is still less than SATA-1 speed however and you'd pay as much for a 600x 64GB CF as you would for a purpose-built SSD.

This is great for a kiosk or other system that just needs to run and run reliably. Not bad for making an OS drive for a file server.

Makes no sense unless you're both building a slim OS on an embedded system AND already have a spare CF card of ample capacity lying around unused.

If it were PATA to CF on the other hand, good for troubleshooting legacy systems or flashing their bios if you don't do the floppy disk thing anymore and system is too old to boot from USB... but more expensive than just burning a CD to do the job, most such tasks don't require being able to write to the booted volume.

I do not think the interface is the bottleneck when using CF cards. the cards are much slower than system memory or even a harddrive

It depends on the CF card and adapter features, if either/or don't support UDMA mode the CF card will operate much slower than it would in a USB card reader, like PIO1 or 4 mode... 6MB/s or less PEAK and lots of stuttering on concurrent I/O, which is unbearable for most modern OS.

I bought the ide version of this to cobble something together a year or two ago. It worked for like two days and then just stopped. The CF card was still good but the adapter just stopped working.
I just ended up buying a cheap hard drive instead.