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17th June 2005, 19:36
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: Mar 2004
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 |  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
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18th June 2005, 10:16
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | waste of space and money in my humble opinion
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18th June 2005, 13:43
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| 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. |
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18th June 2005, 15:17
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| there are much cheaper solutions for that, laptop to IDE HDD adapter
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18th June 2005, 18:26
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| I mean in the case where your laptop has fried, completely. |
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18th June 2005, 18:32
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| yes, there exist convertors to use a 2,5 " HDD on a 3,5 " cable. Costst around 5 to 10 euro on ebay.
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18th June 2005, 20:08
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| Well... The things you learn each day... |
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