Stealth Imaging unveils 120GB PCMCIA NAND hard drive
By Darren Murph 
posted April 18th 2007 8:47AM
posted April 18th 2007 8:47AM
By now, it's probably safe to assume that you've found a peripheral or two to occupy your previously lonely ExpressCard slot, but if you're still miffed when it comes to the oh-so-overlooked PCMCIA slot, Stealth Imaging's got your answer. During NAB 2007, the firm announced that it would be offering up a 120GB NAND solid-state hard disc drive in the form of a CardBus Type II adapter, which would check in at 86-millimeters long and 5-millimeters thick. Furthermore, the device will reportedly sustain 132Mbps read / write rates, sport random seek times of under 50-nanoseconds, and consume "less than one-third of the power used in a typical spinning HDD." Unfortunately, there was no word on when the Windows / OS X compatible device would grace store shelves, but you can start cleaning the dust out of that PCMCIA slot now in preparation.[Thanks, Kevin]
Finally, the dusty slot is once again useful.
As long that this thing dont cost more than the price of my car count me in..
that seems pretty slow compare to ssd offerings. less than 140Mbps (assuming megabits per sec), it like a fast flash memory card...with 120GB size
too bad you can't boot from it.
Good point. Maybe some BIOS manufacturers will come out with updates, or some crafty setup placing a "read from PMCIA slot" command on the traditional hard drive's boot partition will allow for an effective workaround.
I'm not quite sure what I'm missing here with the solid state drives but 132mbps is pretty damn bad compared to the 40-60MBps spinning disks can do. I 'spose the seek times are way lower but does that really make that big of a difference?
they make video production cards why the switch to storage?