For all you embedded hackers out there...

Tom Metro blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 19 22:37:40 EDT 2007


David Kramer wrote:
> Today's item is a pair...of 4GB MicroDrive CF cards for $15
> "Dems is Good Hackin'"

Indeed. Combine that with an IDE adapter that you can pick up on eBay 
for about $15, and you can convert any old PC into a quiet, diskless 
machine. 4 GB is big enough to hold most modern OSs without having to 
trim them down.

But are those "MicroDrive" cards solid state or mechanical drives? The 
latter might explain why they're going so cheap, and if that's the case, 
I'd pay the current going rate of about $40 for the solid state version.

  -Tom

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