[Thinkpad] Re: solid state hard drive computer

Hello,

I recently purchased a CompactFlash to 40-pin IDE adapter for about $20.00
from Corporate Systems Center in Santa Clara, CA. I have not used it yet,
so I cannot tell you how well it does or does not work, but it seems this
would be a good starting point for an internal Solid-State Disk Drive.

Here's the URL to the product:

   <http://www.corpsys.com/store/prodinfo.asp?number=CF2IDE>

Oh, the board is approximately 2.5" x 3.5" in size.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 07:51 PM 9/28/2003, you wrote:
>Message: 13
>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:30:10 -0400
>From: Andrew in Ann Arbor <andrewaa@comcast.net>
>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>Subject: [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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