Brilliant
Brilliant idea!
But then, people buying the cheapest CF cards will moan how slow they are.
I'm sure they will make their own way into Europe, via ebay... from Hong Kong
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Over here (UK) I just very quickly found 16GB CF cards from crucial for <£80, so it ain't that expensive.
Presumably though, the performance of this device will be somewhat lacklustre, probably not even equivalent to first generation SSD's. So it's only advantage is low power?
I think this is excellent... only wish the cards were $5 each and at least 1 TB in size....
Now that would be pretty good.
I am still looking for the day, when a PC has an atomic battery the size of a peanut, runs for a thousand years on one charge and the whole PC is the size of a matchbox, with a holographic 21" screen..
I'd keep my old buckle spring IBM keyboard tho... it's a champion.