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Pros: Does what it's supposed to do.Mounting holes. I've never used them though.The little activity LED looks cool.In the stores here in Norway, products like this costs about 15$, so the price is good.
Cons: Not really. The adapter is a little different than the one on the picture, but who cares? It works.
Other Thoughts: I bought this cause I had a CF card as spare and it might be useful some day.
Bottomline: Now I just need a CF card larger than 128MB if I'm goint to install an operating system.If you want a disk without any moving parts in your laptop, then this is the solution
Pros: The build quality is very good, and I do have several of these. I have never received a DOA. Works with many devices, and withstands excessive use in an engineering environment.
Cons: They grow legs and walk off...
Other Thoughts: I have used these with many different devices, including an OmniClone 5u drive duplicator and test station. I use these with several different USB to IDE adapters, and even in laptops to convert them over to CF.
Bottomline: If you need one for anything; these will work just fine for you, and they will last a long time.
Pros: Great gadget! Very simple. and allows you to use very cheap CF cards to create makeshift SSDs (Solid State Drive).
Cons: There are only two drawbacks to this product. One is the size. Although it is very small, it turned out not to be thin enough for my old libretto. The metal leads would touch the sides of the laptop. But should be more than thin enough for most laptops. The second drawback is the need to clip pin 20 in order to get it to work.
Other Thoughts: I am using it currently on a very old laptop. Replaced the 800 mb hard drive with a 4gb and loaded linux on it! It's great and fast. Don't forget to disable page filing so you don't wear out your CF card. Amazing that my laptop is completely silent now! Also to help you count out pin 20. The pin with the square solder is pin 1. Count the pin beside it, it is 2, the one below it is pin 3 etc.
Bottomline: Great! Bring new life to your old laptops! Make them lighter, more silent, and more power efficient!
Pros: Easy to use, light weight. Master/slave jumper, activity LED, 4 assembly hole. Medium soldering quality. Work fast with my old laptop :) The BIOS detect it like HDD :)
Cons: Must cut off the pin #20 ( like in the preview picture), because in this position no hole in the 44pin female connector in my laptop. Maybe this pin blocked to prevent the drive to be plugged in the wrong direction.
Other Thoughts: Advisbale switch off the swap file under windows xp because frequent write cycle corrupt the CF card. Maybe need more physical memory to work XP without swap file (~ 1GB enough to me for normal operation ).
Bottomline: Buy it and make SSD drive!
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