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J
John Doe
Flasherly said:
Yeah, but the hassle of installing it. Flash drives are bigger.
P
Pen
It's not an SSD, but a mechanical one.
V
VanguardLH
Flasherly said:(if not tomorrow)
Their promotion ends today. So for "how do I do dat", you do it today.
Where does it say there that this is an SSD? It doesn't. You misread.
Why would it mention 3600 RPM for an SSD? That's for rotating platters
for a mechanical hard disk. This is a mechanical hard disk, *not* an
SSD drive.
3600 RPM is slow. Half of a 7200 RPM hard disk.
The "cache" is the just the very small 128 KB onboard memory. It's a
tiny hard disk. Bigger hard disks have bigger cache memory, like 8 to
16 MB (more than 60-120 times the tiny 128 KB on this micro*DRIVE*).
You actually need a slow micro-sized IDE hard disk instead of a fast
full-sized one?
K
KR
It connects in the same way as a compact flash card. You would need
to get a CF to IDE adaptor from Ebay
Note that you would also need a motherboard with an IDE header, which
are becoming rare these days.
IF you use a standard USB card reader, you will find most are only USB
1, and will take forever to boot, or to save stuff to.
I thought that these "microdrives" had gone out years ago. Standard
CF cards are now available in 64 GB and probably 128GB by now.
G
GMAN
....
It connects in the same way as a compact flash card. You would need
to get a CF to IDE adaptor from Ebay
Note that you would also need a motherboard with an IDE header, which
are becoming rare these days.
IF you use a standard USB card reader, you will find most are only USB
1, and will take forever to boot, or to save stuff to.
I thought that these "microdrives" had gone out years ago. Standard
CF cards are now available in 64 GB and probably 128GB by now.
No, these 6GB drives in the link are ZIF connectors. Its a flat cable. It is
not a CF type connector. it is NOT a microdrive!!!!!
G
GMAN
It IS a micodrive. It can not be used or connected to a computer in
any way. It can only be used as a replacement drive for an old Ipod.
No it is not a Compact Flast type connecter, it has the same interface used in
a small laptop i have from HP , an HP Compaq 2510p laptop.
It uses a ZIF flat ribbon connector, not a CF type pin connector. Its a flat
ribon cable
Look at the end of the cable on this webpage
http://www.aliexpress.
com/fm-store/805322/210946437-456019362/Free-shipping-Hard-Disk-Drive-Connecto
r-Cable-For-HP-COMPAQ-ELITEBOOK-2510p.html
A Microdrive has two rows of pins.
K
KR
No it is not a Compact Flast type connecter, it has the same interface used in
a small laptop i have from HP , an HP Compaq 2510p laptop.
It uses a ZIF flat ribbon connector, not a CF type pin connector. Its a flat
ribon cable
Look at the end of the cable on this webpage
http://www.aliexpress.
com/fm-store/805322/210946437-456019362/Free-shipping-Hard-Disk-Drive-Connecto
r-Cable-For-HP-COMPAQ-ELITEBOOK-2510p.html
A Microdrive has two rows of pins.
@gman
If that is the case, I stand corrected.
First glance It looked much like the microdrives of a decade ago,
which were a CF compatible package, but on
closer examination of that pic, it seems to be the wrong dimensions,
and has not got the alignment grooves
on the sides like a CF card has.
For the OP.
You can use a CF card in place of a hard drive in a PC. I have done
this several times
in the past for devices where there was not much drive space needed,
and a hard drive was not
desirable for reliability reasons. (Was running Win XP)
We used an IDE to CF adaptor, and plugged straight into an IDE port.
There are also PCI, Sata and
USB versions of these adaptors, but have never used them, only seen
them online.
Speed is ok, but not as fast as a hard drive.
There would be lots of forums you could google about setting up car
PC's that could help with this
You can likely do same with USB thumb drives now, though have not
tried it..
These days though with SSD drives becoming more and more affordable,
there might not be much point in mucking around.
CF cards of the 6 GB size mentioned in the OP and the CF adaptor would
probably be cheaper,
but whether it is worth the hassle is another matter.
L
Loren Pechtel
SSD??? That's spinning storage!
G
GMAN
It is simply a MicroDrive with a ZIF connector end. I never stated
it was anything different and never stated it was in anyway a CF
connection. I have six of them sitting here in front of me.
OK
G
GMAN
Alot of people did just that with their Atari Falcon computers. They removed@Gman
If that is the case, I stand corrected.
First glance It looked much like the microdrives of a decade ago,
which were a CF compatible package, but on
closer examination of that pic, it seems to be the wrong dimensions,
and has not got the alignment grooves
on the sides like a CF card has.
For the OP.
You can use a CF card in place of a hard drive in a PC. I have done
this several times
in the past for devices where there was not much drive space needed,
and a hard drive was not
desirable for reliability reasons. (Was running Win XP)
We used an IDE to CF adaptor, and plugged straight into an IDE port.
There are also PCI, Sata and
USB versions of these adaptors, but have never used them, only seen
them online.
Speed is ok, but not as fast as a hard drive.
There would be lots of forums you could google about setting up car
PC's that could help with this
You can likely do same with USB thumb drives now, though have not
tried it..
These days though with SSD drives becoming more and more affordable,
there might not be much point in mucking around.
CF cards of the 6 GB size mentioned in the OP and the CF adaptor would
probably be cheaper,
but whether it is worth the hassle is another matter.
the small IDE drive out and placed a CF to IDE adapter in the unit.
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