(20/07/2010 09:52 AM)PSPkiller Wrote:  I can see one problem with this. Most laptops (at least the one's I've used) use IDE to interface the optical drive which means conversion circuitry is needed which saps speed which makes this whole thing poitless.

The conversion should be pretty trivial.   And (I assume) it shouldn't cost that much speed.

(20/07/2010 09:52 AM)PSPkiller Wrote:  Thoughts? Should I be making a trip to the patent office? Does this already exist? Am I crazy?

Problem is, even if you can make it happen, it's pretty pointless....

1.  (For the consumer:) Why not just buy a eSATA HDD?  USB3 is fine too (in a few years when it becomes mainstream).

2.  Difficult to use.  Really, expect an average user to be able to disassemble his/her laptop, remove the optical drive, and install this thing?  Even if the user knows how, there's also the problem of voiding the warranty.

3.  "Large amount of fast [portable] storage space for video editing or something like that" isn't all that useful for laptops, which aren't suited for these kind of tasks.  You can get a desktop up to 3x the power for the same price as a laptop, guess which will encode your videos faster.  And if the user really needs that much HDD speed, why not just use his/her internal HDD?

4.  And you have to sacrifice your optical drive for it...

(This post was last modified: 20/07/2010 10:36 AM by Assassinator.)