I'd heard that digital cameras respond slower when accessing pictures near the end of 2gb or 4gb drives, whereas they're perfectly fast with pictures at the beginning of the drives. Might this urban legend apply to large CF drives in an empeg? Some kind of delay due to addressing such high address space as 16gb, 32gb, or 64gb?

Still, sounds like fun. $150 for a 16gb Ridata CF card. Still need some time for higher capacity cards to push the price down.