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PCMCIA Hard drive in Ireland

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  • 02-02-2011 11:13am
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    ditpaintball
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    Quick one guys, I am looking to use a PCMCIA hard drive, 2gb or 5gb as a print spooler in a laptop. I can't seem to find anywhere in ireland on google that sells them. Does any one know where one could get one?


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    BaconZombie
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    The largest ones I need were 30MB and they were PCMCIA II so will not work in new laptops.
    ditpaintball wrote: »
    Quick one guys, I am looking to use a PCMCIA hard drive, 2gb or 5gb as a print spooler in a laptop. I can't seem to find anywhere in ireland on google that sells them. Does any one know where one could get one?

    Why the hell do you need a 2-5Gb print spooler on a Server let along a laptop ?


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    Owen
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    What you could do is get a PCMCIA Compact Flash memory card adapter, and use an 8 gig high speed flash card?


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    Maj Malfunction
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    Only time I've seen this to be an issue is when printing off very large excel spreadsheets that have been PDF'ed and the queue gets stuffed full with 10-20+ 300mb pdf files.

    Not to mention they take an age to spool, let alone print! A high speed CF card might speed up the process a little, I am curious as to the amount of speed gain you anticipate you'll get.


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    roast
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    Why PCMCIA? Is USB an option on that laptop?


    But to actually answer your question, I've never come across any of these for sale in Ireland.


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