On Jan 6, 2007, at 13:00, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
>> There's a bit of buzz about Samsung Solid State Disks
>> due to come out in the 32 GB range, 1.8".
>>
>> "Personally", I'd like an 8 GB 2.5" SSD to turn one
>> of my 701Cs into a completely quiet but portable word
>> processor. And I don't want to pay more than about $150 for
>> the device. Anybody with a crystal ball (or a price list!)
>> know when that might happen?
I would expect that like all memory the price will continue to drop.
The question is whether the price will catch up with my appetite for
more disk space.
2 or 3 years ago when I assembled the Solid State 560X I bought an 800
Mb (yes Mb) IDE flash drive for around $60 which is still in use. At
the time Sandisk was offering a 4Gb IDE flash drive for near $5K.
I am currently assembling a second 560X with an internal 2 Gb CF card
(in an IDE adaptor) for C: and a 1Gb CF card in the card slot for D:
If I put a 2Gb card in the card slot I'd have as much drive space as
the original 560 came with.
I'd love to have a 32 Gb flash drive but suspect that by the time the
price drops to my level I'll be looking for 100 GB.
When I get the second Solid State 560 working I will be selling off the
original, contact me for details.
>> Maybe it's more the thinkpad's BIOS than anything in the CF card. Can
>> a TP boot from CF in a PCMCIA adapter I wonder??
The 560x will boot from a CF card.
I've had mine boot to DOS running an emulator for my HP palmtop PIM
applications.
Much quicker starting up when you want to look up a phone number.
Remove the card and it boots to Win98 Lite.
Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?
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