"BTW, smart ass Björn, an Mb is a megabarn (a cross section). An Mbit is a megabit... Can you remember that?"

Well Mb is commonly used as an abbreviation for mega bit just like MB is an abbreviation for mega byte. I must admit with my 25 years of IT experience, I have never heard about the megabarn before. Maybe it's more correct but it's not commonly used in the IT world. Can you count that?

From Wiki: "Megabit (Mb, or properly: Mbit), a measure of amount of information commonly used in the combination Mb/s (megabit per second) to express the rate data is transferred"

If they just now release an SSD case, with GSM SIM like socket and SSD controller. open case, clip the card inside like GSM phone SIM, in goes the laptop/desktop and woallah u have a cheap high performance SSD!

"Iain Thomson cites SanDisk correctly"
If you were quick enough you would have found Iain Thomson had amended the descriptions in his article as appropriate since Björn and I commented. Iain had originally used lowercase 'b', or 'megabarn' if you like
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Iain Thomson cites SanDisk correctly (see SanDisk web page). 90 MB/S means megabytes per second.
BTW, smart ass Björn, an Mb is a megabarn (a cross section). An Mbit is a megabit. That's right, the abbreviation for bit is bit. Tit for tat, bit for bit. Can you remember that?

Yes, compact Flash will fit into pata slot with adapter, in fact two into one slot. More common is adapter that fits into pata male head & taks sata male connector. recent ones work in both directions & cost about half older unidirctional models. heres tipper, if you have bad feeling about Dell, Not here, you might want to Take Dell for ride, heres offer:

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Order Total : $14.79 FREE SHIPPING IS $12.99 COST TO DELL. Also, its loswest cost adapter for pata to sata. Take dell for twelve by tomorrow & open up unused, ancient slots that work perfectly with sata or cram worn pata hdd into ancient sata slots.

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CF cards in $5-$15 adapters are also just about the only PATA SSDs you can find... Work great as HD replacements in older machines, assuming you can fine tune the OS to cut down on the writes.

sd cards are crap. only p&s users use them. CF rulez

You do know there is a tiny bit of difference in speed between 90MB/s and 90Mb/s?

90Mbit per second is not fast, that's only 11.25MByte per second, which is only x75 speed.

Shirley shome mishtake?