[Jason Dunn]

http://www.tjotala.com/hardware/storagebrick/default.htm

Iacopo Cricelli sent me a link to this rather enterprising iPAQ owner who managed to connec his iPAQ to a modified Addonics hard drive case. I have the 6 gig model, and it's quite cool. 20 gigs? Awesome!



"I have created a 20GB "storage brick" from a IBM Travelstar 20GN drive mounted inside an Addonics Pocket ExDrive enclosure kit. The drive is connected to my Compaq iPAQ H3630 using a PC Card Expansion Pack and the Addonics PCMCIA adapter/cable..."

(we covered this a while back, but it's quite cool still...)

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.tjotala.com/hardware/storagebrick/default.htm

Iacopo Cricelli sent me a link to this rather enterprising iPAQ owner who managed to connec his iPAQ to a modified Addonics hard drive case. I have the 6 gig model, and it's quite cool. 20 gigs? Awesome!



"I have created a 20GB "storage brick" from a IBM Travelstar 20GN drive mounted inside an Addonics Pocket ExDrive enclosure kit. The drive is connected to my Compaq iPAQ H3630 using a PC Card Expansion Pack and the Addonics PCMCIA adapter/cable..."

(we covered this a while back, but it's quite cool still...)

[usbnuts]

Hmm... I have seen this ages ago.

But it's still very interesting.

Hey, if someone comes up with a CF USB card, it could host tons of USB devices.

[James]

hmm...somehow I just don't portability and a harddrive going together...

[Gerard]

November, 2000. That's when I started using my Accurite 6GB external hard drive with my EG-800. It hasn't lost or corrupted a bit of anything since, in hundreds of daily operations. Fastest backup rates I've experienced by far, with a write-to speed better than twice that of a Lexar 4x CF card. And in all this time, I've still only half filled it. I'm pretty diligent about maintenance, as I want to slowly build collections of important files rather than pack-ratting just anything. I use the third partition to backup my notebook PC... with room left over. Not media stuff, just programs and user configuration, system things.
The Li-Ion battery offers independence (mobility?), and the size is on the same sort of scale as my EG-800 (a brick, sure). If I were a 'suit' of course this would not be suitable (heh), but I carry stuff in pockets and/or a shoulder bag, and an extra pound doesn't bug me at all. Sure beats carrying around my 7 pound notebook!

[Perry Reed]

I would LOVE to be able to connect my 6GB Archos Jukebox to my iPaq or Jornada. It's USB-based, so I guess what I really need is a USB (host) CF card or something similar.

Is the Casio the one with the USB host built in? I wonder if it would be able to connect to the Jukebox...

[st63z]

Yeah we've all seen this mentioned a long time ago. I also have one of the Addonics 2.5" enclosures, with an old 10gig IBM Travelstar in it...

By some weird coincidence, I've recently been rambling on and on (and on...) about Addonics's products over at the StorageReview.com forum

( http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=1185 )

[spg]

Originally Posted by James

hmm...somehow I just don't portability and a harddrive going together...

Yeah, not much use for it sitting on the desk.

~Spencer

[Dave Conger]

Originally Posted by James

hmm...somehow I just don't portability and a harddrive going together...

But I do feel there are some applications where a "brick" would be ok. Such as in my car. Embed the drive somewhere and just plug the PCMCIA card into my iPAQ, and my iPAQ into my car when I get it...hours of music. Better yet, you got small kid that doesn't like long car rides, granted 6gb is a lot, you could let them watch a movie on it in the car. PDA's don't always need portablility to be useful. I would like to see more connectivity for mass storage units (CD, Hard drives, DVD drives). There definatly are some uses for them.

[spg]

Originally Posted by pdadave

But I do feel there are some applications where a "brick" would be ok. Such as in my car. Embed the drive somewhere and just plug the PCMCIA card into my iPAQ, and my iPAQ into my car when I get it...hours of music. Better yet, you got small kid that doesn't like long car rides, granted 6gb is a lot, you could let them watch a movie on it in the car.

Hmm, that is a fairly good idea. But still, once you connect to that drive you are no longer portable. It becomes a set machine, however if you have the ability to disconnect (which you would) it does have some potential! 8)

[Dave Conger]

Originally Posted by spg

Hmm, that is a fairly good idea. But still, once you connect to that drive you are no longer portable. It becomes a set machine, however if you have the ability to disconnect (which you would) it does have some potential! 8)

I wasn't saying it would be portable when you connected it, but in certain situations you might not really need that portability. Does it matter how many attachments your devices has when it is on your desk, or being moved with you in your car? This isn't a solution to carry around with you, it is a hard drive...you wouldn't carry around your laptop using it. Since everything has to pluged in to your PDA, you can always unplug it right? So the potability potential is always there.