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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Ahhh... it's the serenity (CF in Portable) | Posted by: register on 2008-05-27 09:00:56
register, can you provide a link to product info for us?
Also be sure to see my questions on the other flash drive you propose, in this thread. Here the link is: Altec SCSI DoubleDrive
The device is listed "end of life" and is not RoHS compliant (as any vintage Mac is). There might be some supply in stock, still. The manufacturer also offers to produce new items on demand. The device will be pretty expensive if ordered in small lots (i.e. single units).
Probably someone here is running a shop, has some experience with international shipping and could manage the following tasks:
1. collect orders from this site
2. negotiate a reasonable price with the manufacturer
3. distribute single items to end users afterwards, or even negotiate direct distribution to end users to cut down the shipping charges
In case someone would be willing to take this challenge, it would be necessary to ask for detailed specification of CF cards to be 100% compatible with the DoubleDrive. I do not run a shop, my experience with intl. shipping is to pay taxes, only. So I do not want to become "Task Manager" but I would be willing to throw some bucks in.
| Posted by: register on 2011-08-12 14:09:48
FYI: some compatibility and performance data has been collected in our little Wiki.
Using an Artmix CF Power Monster of the first series you will have excellent performance on old Macintoshes. In a PB 180 you would not notice a difference in read or write speed between small and old or large and new CF cards. Any CF card will provide excellent speed compared to the choice of SCSI hard disk drives in a 2.5 Inch form factor. Only the largest and most recent hard disk drives from the age of 68k PowerBooks might outperform the CF Power Monster and CF card combo in write speed. Read speed is neck and neck, the SCSI controller might be the bottleneck in this case.
The New CF Power Monster II from Artmix seems to be improved regarding I/O performance. If one of you comrades get hands on this device, do not forget to leave some results and comments in the Wiki, please.
| Posted by: JDW on 2011-08-12 14:14:10
Here the link is: Altec SCSI DoubleDrive 404 Not Found !!!
| Posted by: register on 2011-08-12 14:35:07
Unfortunately this device seems not to be offered any more. If you could try and request for availability, please update that link in the Wiki with a comment (like: "out of production, not available from manufacturer").
Please do _not_ wipe out the entry at all, as the information about any such device might be useful to search for used devices.
Thank you!
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