A Hard Disk In A PCI Slot?
 

Creative engineers and product designers are constantly coming up with new ideas for interesting products. One company with plenty of inventive folk is Taiwan-based Upgradeware, which in the past made the news mostly because of its processor upgrades.

Their latest offering is a pair of PCI cards, the HD25I and HD25IS, which are adapters that make it possible to install a 2.5" hard disk in a conventional desktop PCI slot. Upgradeware doesn't put an extra hard disk controller on the board. Rather, it uses the PCI slot only as a location and energy source for the installation of the hard disk. The interface continues to be through the PC motherboard.

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050617/index.html

waste of space and money in my humble opinion

Same here.

The only case where this device seems handy is if your laptop has gone to hell and you want to use the data you had in it.

there are much cheaper solutions for that, laptop to IDE HDD adapter

I mean in the case where your laptop has fried, completely.

yes,

there exist convertors to use a 2,5 " HDD on a 3,5 " cable. Costst around 5 to 10 euro on ebay.

Well...

The things you learn each day...