"Cheap" solid state hard drives?
Posted on 05/04/07 19:32 by geno 888                             
"Cheap" solid state hard drives?
Do you want to add a solid state HDD to your notebook? There are already some models available, but their main issue is the very high price. According to a news published at Daily Tech, it is possible to implement an alternative solution for a more affordable price.

For example, it is available a Compact Flash to IDE adapter by Addonics, that allows to replace the notebook's HDD with a low power and shock resistant CF cards. Once installed, the CF appears as an ordinary hard drive to any OS and can be configured as a boot device. The Dual CF-IDE Hard Drive Adapter contains a second CF slot for the slave position of the IDE channel, allowing increased storage capacity with the same low power consumption and solid state benefits of the CF card.

Another system created by Century allows to use Secure Digital cards, but even if it can hosts up to 4 SD cards, and then can offer a higher capacity, it costs a lot more than the CF-IDE adapter (and actually it can costs more than the notebook itself).

Even if interesting, these solutions are not worth the costs in my opinion: with a lower price it is possible to buy a 100 GB HDD, and until prices and speed of these devices will not improve, they will remain only a gadget.

 

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By no (guest), Thursday 05 April 2007 20:28
this is a silly article... 1)most cf-ide adapters dont support pio and udma 2)above(slow) 3)sustained io will ruin the card very fast 4)whats the biggest cf card you can get nowadays LOL
By CDan, Friday 06 April 2007 00:06
CDanActually, flash memory drives do hold some promise, but of course this example is not really a "drive". While flash memory has slower transfer rates, it has almost no access time. And so, it may well "feel" faster in desktop applications than even the fastest hard drives. It's certainly worth some development, especially for laptops.
By Dark Tower (guest), Friday 06 April 2007 15:20
This article is ruined by Punjabglish. I wouldn't mind a typo, but to repeatedly drop the 'direct object' in sentences such as "allows to use" and "allows to replace" is irritating. And "until prices will not improve"? Aargh! Reading this was like trying to deal with Dell phone 'assistance'.
By Stevvie (guest), Friday 06 April 2007 19:22
I have an OLD Fujitsu Stylistic1200 tablet that I use as a photoframe and I brought on of these from Ebay for a total of £4.98 which is about $10 and it is about 10-15X faster with a cheap 4gig CF card than the old 2.1 gig Toshiba 2.5 IDE drive.
By geno888, Friday 06 April 2007 21:32
geno888English is not my primary language so, too bad, it can happen that news written by me will contain errors. I apologize with all CD Freaks readers for this. I do my best to improve Smilie @Dark Tower Luckily I never dealt with Dell phone 'assistance' devil
By gitt (guest), Thursday 19 April 2007 08:40
I use the Sintech 's Adapter , it works well too , from http://www.soarland.com
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