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Deals and Great Z Buys / Some good deals from buy.com

« on: September 10, 2004, 12:30:05 pm »

Hi,
here are some good deals from newsletter I receive:

SanDisk 1GB CompactFlash Card
SAVE $618.00
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $81.99
List price: $699.99
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaE0CV


SanDisk 2GB CompactFlash Card Type 1
SAVE $306.60
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $136.99
List price: $443.59
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaF0CW


Sandisk 128MB Cruzer Micro
SAVE $15.58
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $22.99
List price: $38.57
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaG0CX


SanDisk 1GB Secure Digital Card
SAVE $296.11
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $122.99
List price: $419.10
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaH0CY


SanDisk Cruzer Mini 256MB USB Flash Drive        
SAVE $28.00      
FREE SHIPPING!      
Buy.com price: $36.99    
List price: $64.99    
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0Ben30CN


SanDisk 512MB Compact Flash Card
SAVE $226.00
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $53.99
List price: $279.99
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaI0CZ


Sandisk 256MB CompactFlash Ultra II
SAVE $22.15
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $39.99
List price: $62.14
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaJ0Ca


SanDisk 512MB Compact Flash ULTRA II
SAVE $81.77
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $66.99
List price: $148.76
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhCF0C1


SanDisk 1GB CompactFlash Ultra II
SAVE $181.72
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $95.99
List price: $277.71
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BhaK0Cb


SanDisk 512MB Secure Digital Card
SAVE $156.42
FREE SHIPPING!
Buy.com price: $64.99
List price: $221.41
http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/ebCb0G6GUc0Epf0BfcA0CR

Make sure that the items are in stock.
I the past I have to cancel my order, after two weeks waiting period.

Geralt

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Accessories / SD microdrive when?

« on: June 15, 2004, 12:21:56 pm »

Seems  that SD microdrives can become reality pretty soon:

Technology - Reuters
Mini HDD Seen Bringing Music, Video to Cellphones

Mon Jun 14,11:33 PM ET
  
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By Kiyoshi Takenaka

TOKYO (Reuters) - An inspired combination of two of the most popular gadgets in recent years, mobile phones and digital cameras, resulted in an even hotter product, the camera phone, generating replacement demand across the globe.


Digital Media 101
So many acronyms, so little time. Take the pain out of managing your music, movies, and photos.

  

Next comes an attempt to add the newest marvel, the miniature hard disk drive (HDD), to the cellphone.

If technological hurdles are overcome, a phone that can act as a miniature video player and store some 1,000 songs could hit the market within a year, analysts and industry sources say.

The spread of the technology, which has made possible Apple Computer Inc\'s iPod music players, is expected to give a boost to makers of small HDDs such as Toshiba Corp and Hitachi Ltd

\"Demand for hard disk drives totals 300 million units a year. Cellphones sell some 500 million. The sheer size of the potential market excites disk drive makers,\" said Yukihiko Shimada, an analyst at UFJ Tsubasa Securities.

Speedy Internet access and a flat-rate tariff are likely to encourage cellphone users to download \"rich content\" such as CD-quality music, high-resolution video clips and advanced game software, all of which require an ever increasing amount of storage capacity.

\"The most likely scenario is that flat-rate services would kick-start the distribution of music and videos to cellphones, which would need hard disk drives,\" J.P. Morgan analyst Kazuyo Katsuma said.

NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp, Japan\'s largest and second-largest wireless operators, have started offering flat-rate Internet access services in the past year.

\"I see some high-end models coming out with HDDs as early as in the current business year (to next March),\" Katsuma said.

DoCoMo (news - web sites) expects terrestrial digital broadcasting intended for mobile phones, due to start in 2005, to boost demand for large-capacity memory devices to store and play back TV programs, but says it has not decided what type of memory devices it will use in its phones for that purpose.

Flash memory chips are the primary storage device for cellphones at present, but small HDDs are at least three to four times more cost-efficient.

NEXT BIG THING?

Battle has already been joined for dominance in miniature HDDs, seen as the fastest-growing part of the $24 billion HDD market.

Toshiba, which supplies 1.8 inch drives for Apple\'s original iPod, plans to launch stamp-sized 0.85 inch drives, certified by Guinness World Records as the world\'s smallest HDD, later this year, targeting the market for cellphones and other mobile devices.

Isn\'t  it  SD/MMC size?
Although it may be thicker, but I do not have any more info at this time.

Regards,
Geralt.

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Accessories / Flash memory life with swap

« on: June 07, 2004, 03:59:08 pm »

This is a pool to determine average life time of  flash memory used for swap.

In addition if somebody experience less then two monts of liffe time please post  replay about activity(for example internet browsing), load  and any relevant information.

Cheers,
Geralt.

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Accessories / SD microdrive when?

« on: June 07, 2004, 03:46:50 pm »

I can not use my CF slot beacause is taken by WiFIi Ambicom card.
Acctualy, only one time when I see this nasty memory out messages is when I surf the web using Z.
As far my main concern is the life of the SD memory card.
I plan to use for now 64MB PNY SD, but it recently locked during normal use, so I need to reformat it.
I wonder how often I will need to to this if I place the swap file on it.
Searching ZUG forums I found that life time of flash memory with swap may vary from few weeks to six monts.  
While last ia acceptional, I can not justify repleacement every 2 monts.

The current microdrives utilize 1\" magnetic disk, which takes the most space.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/microdrive.html
I think that would be possible to make it 0.5\'\' sacrifing some capacity.
I woulld be happy with 800MB SD microdrive.
The problem is that there is more CF devices tan SD ones, thus no big market for SD microdrives.

In case of the RAM memory, it is going to be limited to 1MB/s, but wear free and more durable then microdrive.

Geralt

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Accessories / SD microdrive when?

« on: June 07, 2004, 12:17:15 pm »

Does anyone know when we can get some microdrives in SD/MMC format?

I would like to install swap partition for my SL-5600, and microdrive seems to be the best solution.
Although, beter would be to use sam RAM module in SD format but I could not find anything across the web.  
Also 340MB microdrive would work with appropiate adapter.

Does anyone where I can get CF to SD/MMC which works with SL-5600?

Cheers,
Geralt.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Port Requests Here:

« on: March 17, 2004, 10:39:02 pm »

Real Player

http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html