On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:46 AM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2009 14:17:35 you wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:40:36PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: >> > Certainly there are SSDs that work just fine, but from the experiences of >> > friends, I'd say they're at least 3 times more flaky than disks are. >> > Intel had a recall on some earlier this summer, too. >> > >> > Disks are cheap, really cheap right now... >> >> Disks for the X40/X41 are not at all cheap. These are a very rare >> breed, hence the discussion and frustration of many X40/X41 owners. > > Well, I stand corrected. The source I used to buy one doesn't have any > more, and it seems that the price for a new 40G disk is on the order of > $280, a significant increase from when I bought one. So that makes > the SSDs more attractive. I'm still leery of them, though. > > --STeve Andre' > >
Edd, Would these drives by any chance be similar to the 1.8" ZIF drives used in (*shudder*) 5th gen iPods? I have one from my iPod that died a horrible death and it still runs fine. The drive's a 30 gigabyte Toshiba drive, and after the iPod it was used on a PATA to 1.8" ZIF converter and used on a PC running OpenBSD. If this suits your needs, I'm happy to donate it if you can cover postage from Australia. Regards -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict - Oh, why does everything I whip leave me?
