Stealth Imaging unveils 120GB PCMCIA NAND hard drive
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]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Richard Lai @ Apr 18th 2007 9:20AM
Finally, the dusty slot is once again useful.
Ayle @ Apr 18th 2007 9:53AM
As long that this thing dont cost more than the price of my car count me in..
Jeff @ Apr 18th 2007 10:21AM
too bad you can't boot from it.
Chuckles McGee @ Apr 18th 2007 11:46AM
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.
shimman @ Apr 18th 2007 12:29PM
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
NTD @ Apr 19th 2007 4:28AM
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?
brandon @ May 7th 2007 2:23AM
they make video production cards why the switch to storage?