Addonics Technologies has announced a family of CF Hard Drive Adapters, which allow users to replace 2.5-inch IDE/SATA hard drives in their laptop computers with “shock/vibration resistant and less power-hungry Compact Flash (CF) mediaâ€.
“With these new Addonics adapters any equipment, such as a notebook computer, that uses a 2.5″ IDE or SATA hard drive can be easily converted to use the more reliable CF media. Once installed, the CF card appears as an ordinary hard drive to the system BIOS and operating system and can also be configured as a boot device,” the manufacturer says.
The CF HDD adapters are compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris Operating Systems and there is no need for use of special device drivers.
The primary products in the Addonics CF adapter family include the IDE – CF Hard Drive Adapter and the SATA – CF Hard Drive Adapter. The IDE version comes with choice of single slot or dual slots to accommodate up to two CFs for more storage capacity. MSRP for the single slot is $24.99 and for the dual slots is $29.99. The SATA version has a single CF slot and is MSRP for $35.99.
The CF Hard Drive Adapters will be available in April.
