Greetings everyone!

I was looking to some external storage and kind of liked the idea of having a hard drive in PCMCIA port, thus its trooly portable, doesn’t stick out.
the largest I could find is only 5GB and it’s for around $150.
just was wondering if anyone has seen bigger one and how does it effect the battery on your laptop when it’s in???
just wanted to know your opinion on it..

I’ve used a Toshiba 2GB PCMCIA drive over the past few years.  Whilst it seems a good idea, the capacities don’t seem to have kept pace with technology inflation, and I find a USB memory stick more use for day-to-day activities.

With the old 30GB 1.8” drive from my TR1 in an external USB enclosure (powered from the USB port) available for high-capacity external storage, and a 256MB memory stick, I find I don’t use the 2GB PCMCIA drive at all these days.

Another possibility is a PCMCIA memory card adaptor: I seem to have accumulated loads of Compact Flash cards, and a MicroDrive, and the ability to plug those into my laptop has been useful on occasion.

Simon.