Would a storage card this size even work with an H/PC Pro device?

http://www.pretec.com/OnlineSales/SSD/Cheetah/Cheetah_Pages/Cheetah80X_12GB.htm

Yeah, a 12 GIGAbyte solid-state device in CF format. Not that I could imagine EVER needing that much storage (certainly not for that price!! But they all come down in price eventually). I vaguely recall something about CE 2.11 having an upper limit on storage media of something like 2355 MB? Then again, that baby would hold more than a few DVD's converted down to PocketTV size.

Edited by btrimmer 2005-06-07 10:24 PM

hehe ... $9,999!! ... ... me think its a placeholder for now. but 12GB ... sounds like a mod-project to replace a notebook hdd with it.

Pocket TV, I pretent not to have read that

I'd rather spend that money on a custom english SigIII, 12 extended batteries, 6x 2GB cards, and a bag to carry the stuff in instead. 12GB is nice to have, but for that price, most def not. Maybe even a laptop and some additional batteries, and still have money left to get me a nice '98 Celica thats on my list for years as well

I dont think a HPC would support such a size, but I would also not see a reason why I would get a 12GB either. My converted movie collection just went over 50gb this morning.

edit: darn snappy, same time, but he got here first.


Edited by PocketDVD 2005-06-08 12:12 AM

That's one pricey mod-project, for a few thousand write operations before the card hits MTBF and kicks the bucket.

As the file system is independent from the Object Store (4GB/256MB max file size) the limitation is in the FAT32 driver, which should be identical to that of Windows at 32GB.

The best way to experiment though wouldn't be with a $1000 CF card

no, it ain't a $1,000 mod, it is a $10,000 mod!!!. check the URL, it says $9,999

, I should put my glasses on!

hahahahahaha

£5250 for a CF card - keep taking those magic mushrooms Pretec, you might see a flying pig soon

Well I've successfully used a 2GB Toshiba PC Card HDD on my Hewlett Packard 320LX Palmtop PC...

RUNNING WINDOWS CE 1!

Hell, the wife's Hewlett Packard h5550 iPAQ Pocket PC has a whopping 11GB of storage, thanks to two 5GB Toshiba PC Card HDDs and a 1GB SanDisk SD card!

Dude, how long does that battery last with all that running!

BTW that's a mightily expensive PDA setup.

With moderate use, she can (surprisingly) get as much as a whole day out of all that hardware!

Of course, that's all thanks to the extended battery that is built-in to her Dual PC Card Expension Pack...

Mmm, i imagine the only downfall will be that it became the iBRICK, instead of an ordinary iPAQ.

lol and what does she use that for? she's really a power user.... dual pc card expansion sleeve! with a battery! and an extended batt at that!

More like two iBRICKS! LOL

She uses it for MP3s and photos (from her camera-phone) mostly, although she has a few games and videos too.

For obvious reasons, I hope to upgrade her to a Media Center PC and a Portable Media Center later this year...

If what you said was true, I don't think a PMP is much smaller or last as long. It might have a bigger harddrive tho.

And the Media Centre PC might work just as well with your PPC.

C:Amie hinted at this, any CF will not be a good HDD replacement in any case. WinCE or any other OS will have some small set of bits that are re-written a few times every second, giving a flash sector a working life no longer thana full battery charge lasts :-)