Addonics CompactFlash Adapters Replace Notebook Hard Drives

From: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/periphera...ves-249594.php

Now here's a great idea from Addonics: replace a laptop's 2.5" hard disk with flash memory, using a $30 adapter that lets you boot from CompactFlash cards. Suddenly you've converted that lappy into a solid-state notebook without spending an arm and a leg. That's what Addonics has done with its CompactFlash Hard Drive Adapters for notebooks, available in both SATA and IDE flavors and accommodating either single or dual CompactFlash cards. So let's say you get yourself a couple of 12GB CompactFlash cards—that would cost you about $260, and they're capable of read and write speeds of about 9MB per second. Not the fastest drives in the world, but still serviceable. For under $300, you have yourself a solid-state laptop. But 24GB isn't going to be enough storage space, is it?

We've heard talk of Samsung cranking out 64GB CompactFlash cards before too long, though they won't cost any $130, that's for sure. Anyway, if you don't need that much storage space, low-priced solid-state notebook conversions just got a whole lot easier.

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You could add one of these for more storage:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/b...-pro-2-series/

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Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234

You could add one of these for more storage:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/b...-pro-2-series/

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You can use memory sticks for Vista ready boost, but I have always wondered if the read/write speed of the flash memory in a keyring is as fast as the stuff they put into the solid state hard drives? Is flash memory just flash memory?

My 1 TB flash drive is arriving next week:snooty: