Question: How about the 40MB Clik cards by IOmega of the Zip
drive fame. I started to see those used on some laptop and was
considering using for large files.
Cesar Tamondong
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>From: Ryan Gabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Multiple recipients of DuoList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 6/25/00 11:12:43 PM
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>on 6/25/00 3:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>> I came across an article on "Low End MAc" at
>> http://lowendmac.com/myturn/2k0607.htmlv
>> where the author used Compact Flash cards in the PC slot to
extend his RAM.
>> Now I don't have any compact flash cards to try this out,
however, it seems
>> an interesting option.
>> Does anyone have any technical comments on this? Feasible
in the 2400c?
>Feasible, yes. A good idea, definitely not. A compact flash
memory card is
>slow, probably slower than the internal Hard Drive, especially
if you use a
>USB interface. The CF card can only be written to about 60000
times before
>the memory refuses to be copied to again and the card dies.
This means you
>would probably have about a few weeks worth of use, which is
probably not a
>good thing. Of course many of these problems disappear if you
use an IBM
>CF+ MicroDrive, which is really a very small Hard Drive and
can be written
>to much more and is much more expensive.
>
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