[Thinkpad] solid state hard drive computer

> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:10:36 -0400
> From: Donald MacQueen <dmacq(a-t)erols.com>
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Meta Pad: Rarer than Justin's Power Series 820
>
> interesting. i am waiting for some manufacturer to bring out a laptop
> with cf flash instead of a hard drive. you can buy a gig of cf for
> less than $200 retail, and the trend is sharply downward. i don't know
> about you but, with a little discipline, i could live with a cf 'hard
> drive' of ~ 6 gigs. no spinning drive means less power consumption,
> which means less weight and longer battery life.

Donald
If you don't want to wait to you can always roll your own.
I've got a 800 MB solid state drive in my 560x and it's great.
Totally silent and noticeably better battery life.
I do have a 512 Mb card in one of the slots as the "D" drive but even
so there's a lot of stuff that didn't make it across from the desktop.
Not bad for $50.

If you want more space and you've got more money you could get a larger
drive, I think they come up to 4 Gb now at about $1k per Gb.
http://www.sandisk.com/oem/flashdrive.asp

Or you could get an adapter and use whatever CF card you happen to have
lying around:
http://www.dansdata.com/cfide.htm

Contact me if you need more specifics

-- 
Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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