Pretty neat. I like the older 680x0 series Powerbooks for messing around in Classic. If they had IDE internal interfaces I'd definitely upgrade them to this with a nice 2GB or 4GB card.
Say the adapter is $100CAD, that's $700 for 32GB of flash storage :O I'd still prefer a hard drive for media storage but you could probably fit the OS + apps on one card, use another card for virtual memory, then have a media drive. I'd wait for them to make a 16GB or 32GB expresscard.
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Say the adapter is $100CAD, that's $700 for 32GB of flash storage :O I'd still prefer a hard drive for media storage but you could probably fit the OS + apps on one card, use another card for virtual memory, then have a media drive. I'd wait for them to make a 16GB or 32GB expresscard.
Compact flash however is WAY slower than the type of Flash memory that is used in SSHDs. There is a big problem with 'camera' type Flash cards, in that the entire block has to be erased and rewritten every time you want to change one bit. Which is why flash based hard drives are still $$$$ and rare.
$2 a gigabyte in 2012? That's still a huge amount of money. A 250 gig hard drive would be 500 dollars, whereas a current 250 gig is maybe 80 dollars. But hey, that would be cool to have a non-physically crashable drive and I'm sure it'll be popular in a lot of mission-critical enterprise applications.
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Say the adapter is $100CAD, that's $700 for 32GB of flash storage :O
Well, the dual adapter is only $29.99 USD. I'd take a mini flash HD over a USB key anyday, since I can plop the adapter into my portable FW enclosure (which has an internal IDE interface) anyday.
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Originally Posted by dona83
I'd still prefer a hard drive for media storage but you could probably fit the OS + apps on one card, use another card for virtual memory, then have a media drive. I'd wait for them to make a 16GB or 32GB expresscard.
Keep in mind that the article targeted older macs, such as the 1xx and 5xx series. You can definiely fit an entire OS plus applications in < 80MB, never mind 2GB of space! And for those that had crappy battery life, the flash drive is probably a lot better.
But you're right. For media, I prefer RAID or some other "conventional" storage method until prices for the faster stuff drop.
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