Yeah - if you want to blow $400+ on the 1 Gb CF card. CF cards are about 50c a Mb at the moment, and remember they have a limited number of read/write cycles.
http://www.pricespy.co.nz/cat_4.html#g135 I want a quiet hard drive for my laptop, and I did look into this as an option, unfortunately my linux install is about 500 Mb on its own, plus whatever data files I want to carry about. And muffling the drive didn;t really do anything much about the noise. On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 15:05, Jason Greenwood wrote: > 64MB???? Try 1GB, as CF now routinely comes in this capacity. =) > > Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:45, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > > > > > >>Fans yes, however the noise from the bloody hard drives can be deafening. > >> > >> > >If you are using the box as an x-terminal, you can remove the IDE HDD > >(it is an IDE HDD, before anyone yells SCSI :) and replace it with a > >Compact Flash card and adaptor. I am sure you can get a working X setup > >into 64MB :) Something along the lines of > > > > > > > > > >
