I’ve seen these in a local monster computer store here in Arizona. I was tempted to get one but I couldn’t think of a good reason to own one. Of course, if you want one you can get a CF to IDE
I did speak to a guy that was building a robot that would run Linux off from an old desktop computer. He was trying to figure out a way to extend the battery life of the system, the motorcycle batteries just weren’t lasting as long as he had hoped. I told him about these and he was quite pleased. Using a compact flash card in place of a hard drive should save him a few amps off his power load.
I suffered with various routers purchased from Newegg, tried various firmwares, read tons of reviews…nothing could withstand the vicious onslaught of traffic we rammed through these boxes…
I’d known of computer based firewalls for a while, having tried to get various floppy routers and linux firewall distros running on various retired computers I had laying around…
One day I stumbled across m0n0wall. I took an old 233Mhz Intel, 64MB of memory, two older Linksys PCI ethernet cards and one of those CF adapters with a $6 clearance card from KMart and made an actual working firewall. Uptime of over 270 days before I finally broke down and upgraded the firmware.
Traffic shaping / Quality of Service, all types of neato features, ROCK SOLID…the best $25 I ever spent.
http://m0n0.ch/wall/