Romel
I'm the guy with the Solid State 560.
I got the drive from E-bay around the middle of last year for $50.
The seller was a liquidator in Massachusetts:
We Buy Scrap INC. webuyscrap@hotmail.com
508-786-0500 1-877-SCRAP-04
It looked like this one but was 800 MB instead of 220 MB.
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38118&item=6706227676&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW>
I know Sandisk makes a similar product in a 4Gb size but I've never seen
any for auction (and they cast $4k new).
Installation was easy, I had to make a wooden spacer to compensate for
the solid state drive being thinner than the OEM drive.
So far I'm very pleased, my WIN98 Lite <www.litepc.com> installation
takes 230 Mb and with program and cache files I've still got 130 MB free.
All my data goes on a 1Gb CF card so if the solid state drive goes belly
up all I'd lose would be OS and program.
I had heard of the read/write limitation on flash memory but never took
the time to figure out how often Windows write to disk.
So far I've noticed no more than the usual number of Win 98 problems.
I just ran Scandisk and it reported "problems found and fixed" (file
fragment) and no bad sectors.
I'm not sure how this problem would manifest.
For an alternative approach you can boot a 560x from the PC card slot
but that doesn't get rid of the hard drive.
You can get an adapter that will let you substitute a CF card for an IDE
drive but by the time you by a decent sized card and adapter you've
likely spent about $150 or around triple the price of the 800 Mb IDE drive.
Ms. V.Lamburn did a 560x this way with a small (32 Mb?) card in place of
the internal drive and a 350 Mb card in the PC card slot that held the
OS. She used to have a web page describing the details but I haven't
been able to find it since she ran off with that biker.
My advice is to go for it, my 560 isn't real fast but it is totally
silent and I get hours of use from the battery that was in it when I
bought it.
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