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Wish you had an SSD Hard Drive but don’t have the dough?

Yeah, me too! Now, though, we have another option than spending $1000 bucks for this; meet the Sans Digital’s CS1T and CR2T devices which turn CF (Compact Flash) cards, into 2.5" HDD enclosures perfect for your laptop.

CS1T is single-card enclosure, while it’s brother CR2T is a dual card enclosure that uses RAID and supports capacity of up to 64GB.

The benefits are same as having an SSD drive: less power consumption, less heat, shock prevention, and silent operation.

Supports RAID 1 (Mirroring) or Spanning, up to 2 x 32GB CF cards, and it connects via SATA.

You can buy it now for $99, no CF’s included of course. Considering CF card prices of about $160GB per 32GB card, it definitely beats the SSD price. I wish there were some benchmarks to show the true speed so we can really conclude on how it compares with true SSD drives.

Buy it @ Sans Digital Store
Thanks: Engadget

Update: Engadget has a video of a similar model from Century together with a video you might be interested in: http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/22/video-centurys-compact-flash-ssd-sata-adapter-reviewed/

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ArsT Reviews MacBook Air w/ SSD [not worth the price]

Jacqui, over at ArsTechnica, compared the two MacBook Airs, one with the regular Hard Drive, and the other with (a $1300 extra greens) SSD Drive and a bit faster CPU.

Their Conclusion:

The Good:

• No more entire machine slowdowns! (well, most of the time…)
• Speedy boot, disk read, and build times

The Bad:

• The moderate gains in everyday use aren’t worth $1,300

The Ugly:

• Battery life. Still.

What I concluded from the article: MacBook Air is the slowest Mac EVER! SSD does not even help it; just look at the graphs. Buy yourself a MacBook Pro (but in 2-3 months) when the new one comes out

Via: ArsTechnica

Need another good review? Here’s one by yours truly: MacBook Air: Yesterday’s computer in Tomorrow’s Body!

 
Benchmark by: ArsTechnica

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