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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Scott Sullivan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">That would be a likely candidate, still running into the space issue.
The module I'm looking is pictured at the bottom of page 2nd from left,
top row:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://usa.apacer.com/us/products/ATA-Disk_Module_(ADM)_specs.htm">http://usa.apacer.com/us/products/ATA-Disk_Module_(ADM)_specs.htm</a>
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Those are of course a proprietary design, while a CF adapter lets you
use whatever cheap CF card you ever want.
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I agree with the concept, but maybe these days it's a better idea to
consider SDHC rather than CF cards, given that SDHC cards are showing
up in higher capacities and lower cost/GB thanks to their popularity
in devices such as camcorders.<br>
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Something such as
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adidesd.asp">http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adidesd.asp</a>
(without the enclosure)<br>
or
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.made-in-china.com/china-products/productviewxqCnNouVamUg/SD-to-IDE-Converter.html">http://www.made-in-china.com/china-products/productviewxqCnNouVamUg/SD-to-IDE-Converter.html</a><br>
or
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/SDHC-SD-MMC-3-5-Desktop-IDE-HDD-SSD-adapter-mini-ITX_W0QQitemZ370126235437QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Cables_Adapters?hash=item370126235437&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205">http://cgi.ebay.com/SDHC-SD-MMC-3-5-Desktop-IDE-HDD-SSD-adapter-mini-ITX_W0QQitemZ370126235437QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Cables_Adapters?hash=item370126235437&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205</a>|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50<br>
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Anyway, you get the idea. The adaptors are out there.<br>
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<pre wrap="">As I noted in the original email, I'm looking at the options for slimmed
down's distro, and the OLPC XO provides a nice reference design on how
to go about slimming Fedora (my preferred distro). But if I could get
those same modules with a greater capacity, it would make the task far
simpler.
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Well a 16GB CF card runs about $100 as far as I can tell. 32 and 64GB
cards also exist.
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If going SDHC, decent speed 16GB can easily be had locally for under
$50 (with the lowest at $36) and is big enough to hold the most
bloated Linux distribution. Right now that seems to be the sweet spot
because 32GB cards are much harder to find and in the $200-250 range.<br>
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And, of course, one other alternative is to use a regular SSD that's
configured to talk directly to the IDE interface, using a form factor
resembling (and mounting like) a regular (2.5") hard disk. Those
range from $100 for 32GB to $400-500 for 128MB.<br>
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I'm not yet aware of a 64MB CF or SDHC card in wide public
availability.<br>
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- Evan<br>
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