after having a look on mini-itx.com for sliline cd drives, i saw they did miniture 1.8" hard drives too that apparently fit the normal 2.5" connector.
i got bored of the cast off 2.5" drives i got from work. noisey, clonky, some just lost their partition information. most annoying. so i bit the bullet and bought a 1.8" drive.
but mini-itx were out of stock of their 20Gb's, Dabs.com didn't have the 20Gb's or the 40Gb's either, but they had some 60Gb drives...
anyway, it was to be the quietest drive i have ever used. even with my ear to the drive i can just hear the faint click of head movement. found an annoying hum though. but its my A1200 powersupply!
plus its just less than half the size of a 2.5"! :-D
so to sum up, its just a little bit bigger than a compactflash and IDE adapter. just about as quiet, and how many times the capacity? and no flash rewrite issue. and lets be honest here, how much faster is the improvment in seek time with a flash drive going to effect things? :-)
