Anyone tried this

[sud]

Has anyone tried this as a replacement for the 80gb drive on there macbook air? I have been tempted over the past couple months to give this a try as it a lot cheaper then buying a ssd.

http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/CF-to-ZIF-1-...41993QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

Not sure,it might be a bit high at 6mm, any thoughts? if you were to use the x300 cf card it gets random write speeds of 45mbps

 

[Waragainstsleep]

The original drive is 5mm. There isn't much room left over in the case, if you got it in, it might get a bit warm......

 

[joegomolski]

I" don't believe there's room enough for that to fit inside the case.

And anyway why would you want to do it. For flash memory use an USB flash memory device. I have 3 32GB flash drives, and they're great!

 

[SFStateStudent]

+1 ^^^ Not enough room for my taste. If you decide to go with it post your results...

 

[sud]

Problem with the usb is they are a bit slow. they only at best get around the 32mbps from what I have seen, I dont need the 80gb that I have, all I have on the air is word 08 aperture 2 the usual web browser and email.

I have the macbook pro for my music and video, so a 32gb compact flash would work great and save about $200 as apposed to getting the proper ssd hard drive, will post results of I give it a try.

 

[dudup]

Beware that flash memory chips have different grades of speed and performance. YMMV.