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Originally posted by auujay I dont know why everyone is saying get an external HDD, he says he has on open drive bay so get a harddrive for that. IMO a HDD makes much more sense than an SD card simply because it shuold be so much cheaper. However, you are correct in that SD cards offer a lot of advantages. I am not sure of this but I would assume they are way faster than a hard drive simply because they are solid state memory. Also because of this they are much lighter and offer much lower power consumption, both important features in a laptop. Also because it is solid state it has a very stable data retention, drop an SD card and I bet the data is fine just don't try it with a hard drive.

You must remember, laptops have a limit on the size of HD you can install in them.. What i did was bought an extennal enclosure (35$) and a 120gig HD (100$) so .. $135 .. and it can be transported to ANY computer that has USB ..

Just some thought ..

Jay

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Originally posted by Dj Ricky H Anyone know where I can get those PCMCIA w/dongle in canada?

try froogling the part #'s of those cards to see if anything comes up.

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Originally posted by DannyO I'll second that, I want to add USB2.0 and possible Firewire to my laptop, but want to also have room to either have a Wifi card or a sound card plugged into the PCMCIA cardslot.

Finally...after searching for a few days...I found this:

Apricorn EZ USB 2.0 CardBus PC Card

Can be bought here (in Canada):

1click2computers

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