HD32F Hard Disk Drive Comes With PCMCIA Support, Throws Away The USB Cable
ASKA-CORP (Asuka) of Japan cooks up a 20GB and 40GB hard disk drives (HDD) that don’t spot the usual USB cable. Instead, the hard drive comes with a mini-USB and PCMCIA card. This allows you to plug into any laptop to transfer 1056Mbps of data (via PCMCIA) without the help of any cable. You can even paste your girlfriend’s pic to remind yourself of her. $123 for a 20GB piece, $230 for a 40GB one. Currently available in Japan.
Any ger’s pic is nicer than mine via Gizmodo
12 opinions for HD32F Hard Disk Drive Comes With PCMCIA Support, Throws Away The USB Cable
Eoin Hickey
Oct 22, 2007 at 20:15
this is rather pointless there is still stuff hanging out of your laptop its just a more akward usb key. when is this stuff goning to go wireless
pac
Oct 22, 2007 at 21:48
Nice picture of a thinkpad. Now try that on a Mac… All laptops have USB. NOT all have PCMCIA…
Pcmcia sucks
Oct 23, 2007 at 04:19
Why would you want this? PCMCIA sucks.
G3
Oct 23, 2007 at 14:40
PCMCIA 1056 Mbps USB2 480 Mbps. Seems pretty obvious to me why you’d want a PCMCIA hard disk over a USB one.
James
Oct 23, 2007 at 18:35
no way would i ever buy this first of all 230 dollars for 40 gigs is just insane and second i have enough shit sticking out of my laptops usb and hdmi port nevermind the powercord and i agree on going wireless this product is almost bringing us backwards
Bob DolP
Oct 23, 2007 at 23:36
THANK YOU G3. “PCMCIA sucks.”
WHAT A RETARD
BuggyDE
Oct 23, 2007 at 23:41
This is not new technology, somewhere around I have a old 4GB PCMCIA hard drive that looks about the same as that except it has a larger casing. If I REALLY wanted to I could put a 80GB harddrive in the old caddy. Come to think of it I also have a PCMCIA 4x CDRW drive somewhere as well…
turbo
Oct 24, 2007 at 01:05
did anybody notice the USB PORT on the side of the thing. pcmcia OR usb, i’d buy it.
Dwindle
Oct 24, 2007 at 10:05
Sorry, mac. You can have a cute toy, or a big kid computer. You can’t have both.
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If it opens up all the way (as I assume it would) and lay flat, great invention. I don’t know why the high speed of pcmcia isn’t used more often.
Nathan
Oct 26, 2007 at 13:52
at pac: get a windows computer!
macs suck
oleg
Oct 27, 2007 at 22:08
cool , but a little expensive and out of my price range , oh well , i will stack with firewire
you guys (the 2 above me ) are windows based dicks , my gaming rig (windows xp sp2 x64 )(3.6 ghz amd 6400 X2 (overl\clocked from 3.2) 4 gb of 800 mhz ram ati radeon 2600 hd oc edition (2 in crossfire ) asus m2n32 mobo sunbeam transformer case 580 watt psu 2 120mm fans 4 80mm fans ) runs just as fast as my thinkpad r60 1.83 ghz running ubuntu and my macbook pro dualcore 2.16ghz
(in fact my laptops are probably faster because os x and linux are anything but bloated)
so i doubt you all have ever even used a comp without your precious windows , an OS is an OS , just an OS , nothing more , some are more well written than others and some are slower , but they all have thier uses (imo:windows = gaming , mac= work , linux = techie based fun + beryl)
geefour
Oct 29, 2007 at 00:52
1056 Mega bits per second = ~132 Mega Bytes per second. So it’s basically like a the last/latest PATA drives regarding transfer speed.
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