32GB or More PCMCIA (PC Card) Flash Drive?
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From: x0054 on 18 Apr 2008 01:59 Hi all. I got 2 laptops, one for home, one for work and travel. I also got a desktop which I use occasionally. And I am getting tired keeping track of files. So, I had an idea, what if I get a flash drive and carry my personal folder on that. USB drives are out of the question because I will, I know it, snap off the thing in the USB port. So instead I am looking at a PCMCIA (PC Card) or CF Flash Cards instead. It's perfect because you can just slide them into any laptop that has a PCMCIA slot, most still do, and it's flush with the laptop, does not stick out, and that port has high access speeds. With that in mind I spent about 2 hours on google looking for a PC Card with 32GB or more of storage. But I can not find one. Can any one point me in the right directions, they must have them. Alternatively I looked at CF cards. They sell 32GB cards on ebay for about 150$. Has any one used them before? I was looking for a PC Card because they are bigger, thus would have less dance memory and less failure possibilities, but a CF card would work just as well, if it is reliable. Has any one used the 32GB CF cards from ebay, are they reliable? - Bogdan
From: Gerard Bok on 18 Apr 2008 10:30 On 18 Apr 2008 05:59:15 GMT, x0054 <x0054(a)index.com> wrote: >Alternatively I looked at CF cards. They sell 32GB cards on ebay for about >150$. Has any one used them before? >Has any one used the 32GB CF cards from ebay, are they reliable? Not an answer to your question, I know :-) Keep in mind that it is quite easy to disguise any small flash device (be it PCMCIA, CF, USB or whatever) as a much bigger --and more valuable-- device. So, you can have a device that shows 32 GB free space. It may even come with a label, promising 32 GB. But free space is zero once you stored 4 or 8 GB on the device. Be warned! Be very carefull :-) -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok
From: x0054 on 18 Apr 2008 19:08 bok118(a)zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote in news:4808af4b.13119032(a)News.Individual.NET: > On 18 Apr 2008 05:59:15 GMT, x0054 <x0054(a)index.com> wrote: > >>Alternatively I looked at CF cards. They sell 32GB cards on ebay for >>about 150$. Has any one used them before? > >>Has any one used the 32GB CF cards from ebay, are they reliable? > > Not an answer to your question, I know :-) > > Keep in mind that it is quite easy to disguise any small flash > device (be it PCMCIA, CF, USB or whatever) as a much bigger --and > more valuable-- device. > > So, you can have a device that shows 32 GB free space. > It may even come with a label, promising 32 GB. > But free space is zero once you stored 4 or 8 GB on the device. > Be warned! Be very carefull :-) > I heard about that. I decided to go with the 32GB CF drive from a reputable company. I got one from ebay for a reasonable price, and the guy is only 80 miles away from me. So, fingers crossed, it will be ok. I tend to trust ebay because of the feedback counts. Usually you don't get screwed if the guy has over 10k in feed back with 99+% of that positive. But I did here form a friend that he got a 32GB USB stick in China that ended up being a reformatted 1GB stick. Hopefully this little experiment works out. - Bogdan
From: Barry Watzman on 18 Apr 2008 21:45 You can get a PC Card to CF converter, and the CF card goes INSIDE the converter which is the size of just a PC card and which doesn't stick out. You can use any Compact Flash (CF) card, so this meets all of your requirements. And it's cheap (probably under $10). x0054 wrote: > Hi all. I got 2 laptops, one for home, one for work and travel. I also got > a desktop which I use occasionally. And I am getting tired keeping track of > files. So, I had an idea, what if I get a flash drive and carry my personal > folder on that. > > USB drives are out of the question because I will, I know it, snap off the > thing in the USB port. So instead I am looking at a PCMCIA (PC Card) or CF > Flash Cards instead. It's perfect because you can just slide them into any > laptop that has a PCMCIA slot, most still do, and it's flush with the > laptop, does not stick out, and that port has high access speeds. > > With that in mind I spent about 2 hours on google looking for a PC Card > with 32GB or more of storage. But I can not find one. Can any one point me > in the right directions, they must have them. > > Alternatively I looked at CF cards. They sell 32GB cards on ebay for about > 150$. Has any one used them before? I was looking for a PC Card because > they are bigger, thus would have less dance memory and less failure > possibilities, but a CF card would work just as well, if it is reliable. > > Has any one used the 32GB CF cards from ebay, are they reliable? > > - Bogdan
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