Dual Slots Cf HDD Adapter

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000PELWOE
• Item model number: AD44MIDE2CF
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,300 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 13, 2007

Product Description

Product Description
This family of unique CF-IDE Hard Drive Adapters is designed to enable one or two Compact Flash (CFI/II) media to be used as direct replacement for the 2.5" IDE hard drive. As a result, any equipment, such as Notebook computer, that uses a 2.5" IDE hard drive can be easily converted to use the low power and shock resistant CF media. Once installed, the CF appears as an ordinary hard drive to any OS and can be configured as a boot device. The Dual CF-IDE Hard Drive Adapter contains a second CF slot for the slave position of the IDE channel, allowing increased storage capacity with the same low power consumption and solid-state benefits of the CF card.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Neat Little Gizmo, February 4, 2008

By	Peter Sisk - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One of these, together with two high capacity CF cards equals a pretty good home brewed 2.5" Solid State Drive. I cheaped out on the CF cards, so the performance of my laptop is suboptimal in some respects. Installation time for new software is especially awful. However, on the whole, the performance of the laptop is improved. Bootup time is improved by better than 50%. Battery endurance is improved around 20%. Your mileage may vary, of course. Best of all, my laptop is completely silent most of the time now. Much less fan noise, no clicking read head, no whirring drive. If you have a couple of fast CF cards lying around, one of these gizmos will turn them into a perfectly fine Solid State IDE drive. If you don't have the cards on hand, it might make most sense to wait a few months and buy a purpose-built SSD; prices are falling fast now.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what it should be, August 1, 2008

By	smrbrts "smrbrts" (MA) - See all my reviews

The product will not support two microdrives because of physical issues with the thickness of the drives and locations of the offset slots. I did get this to work with one 8Gb microdrive, but then it would not fit into my old ultra light Dell laptop because it was too thick. It is working fine in my Dell CPx laptop and runs silently, but just a bit sluggish.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does what it's supposed to!, January 13, 2009

By	Turbolence (NH, USA) - See all my reviews

Know what you're buying before you drop the money on it. This is simply an adapter. The performance of your CF card will NOT be limited by this device, but by the card itself. And also make sure you get the right kind of adapter. This is compatible with IDE 2.5" / PATA / ATA-6 drive connectors that mostly older laptops use. This is NOT an SATA adapter.

Having said that, I have it up and running with Windows XP on an 8GB Transcend CF card on an old Presario 2596 that had a fried drive. Works like it's supposed to! Lower power, less noise, added benefit of SSD durability, all in a simple adapter that cost me less than a fourth of the price to get a new ATA-6 drive! Pops right in and detects as a standard IDE disk without hassle in the BIOS. It does what I wanted it to do! Perfect score!