jpxdude: I have personnally never had a problem with my NinjaDS (might be because I got fast SD cards? or because I haven't tested every single release?), and there are 3 different speed settings that you can select if you have trouble with your card.
Anyway, the DSLink and the X9 still stand, there is no particular slowdown with the DSLink as far as I know.
My personal opinion on the Acekard: it looks just similar to a DSLink that wouldn't require a flashed DS, and that would have 100% DS compatibility. They both require PC software, use microSD, are chinese, white case, ...
However the DSLink detects the save types, it doesn't use a proprietary file system, etc... The comparison is easy.
Now I think they can add automatic save type detection in a new version of the firmware, but if they're going to keep the "100% clean roms" moto, they won't be able to enable download play. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think you can fix download play only by changing the way a rom is booted.
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Interesting discussion on fragmentation, however, sequential reads are primarily faster on disks because of seek times. The heads take time to move from reading the inside to the outside of a disk, and it takes time to spin the disk to the correct location. Solid state media like flash doesn't have this mechanical limitation. The likely reasons the filesystem doesn't support fragmentation is a) it takes more effort to write the software to handle fragmentation and b) it takes a lot more effort to design the DS interface to handle fragmentation.
you're most likely right about seeking in flash memory (which I didn't know), but if there's no speed issues with fragmented files, why would they even bother using a file system whose only purpose is to disallow file fragmentation? I mean, none of the other slot-1 solutions use a proprietary file system..