Now here’s a great idea from Addonics: replace a laptop’s 2.5″ hard disk with flash memory, using a $30 adapter that lets you boot from CompactFlash cards. Suddenly you’ve converted that lappy into a ...

I haven't seen an adapter, and if they are available I'd suspect they will be considerably more expensive than for the 2.5" drives. The reason is that the 1.8" drives use 3.3v for power, not 5v.

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This cleverly disguised 2.5-inch RAID enclosure drastically improved the performance of our hard drives in RAID 0. But continuing problems with configuring SSDs leaves us unable to recommend it in ...

The HDD-PS6 Power Switch from Kingwin is a good device that does its intended job quite well, but it does suffer from some quality control issues. For the consumer that utilize multiple drives in ...