On Sep 4, 4:17 pm, Simon Royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was looking on eBay and stumbled across solid state laptop hard drives.
>
> How much difference would they make to a laptops speed? Can they be fitted
> to any laptop or are they only SATA? I couldn't find any IDE ones.
>
> Simon
I don't know how relevant this is but I think it is interesting.
Cyberguys offers adapter cards that convert CF cards to either ata or
sata so you could plug them into a computer to function exactly as a
drive (pn 168 0201 and 168 0202). They connect to the standard
internal drive connectors. I guess you could replace the internal
drive of a MacBook with the sata version of one. But it would have
small capacity and be slow.
Of course, Compact Flash cards aren't as much used as they were and
are not as cheap as SD cards in large sizes. Such a device that would
accept SDHC cards could be VERY useful. These are the ones starting
to be used in camcorders to replace tape, drives or DVD recording.
They can have large capacity, are very fast and above all are
amazingly cheap. I paid less than $30 for an 8 gig card for my Lumix
camera. I paid less than $10 for a compatible card reader.
Solid state memory will certainly replace mechanical methods in every
application. It's cheaper, smaller and more releable. Maybe soon.
Rich
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