"Laptop" Dedicated USB drive I DIY

With the further popularization of the handheld devices such as DC, DV, PDA and handheld game machine, the demand of card reader is increasing day by day. Many friends use USB card reader + memory card form, DIY USB flash drive. Not only convenient to read from the handheld devices, but also to achieve the use of U disk transmission file convenience. However, the USB drive is mostly small enough to occupy a valuable USB slot. Therefore, it is inconvenient to carry more. What to do? With pcmcia!

As we all know, the PCMCIA slots are iconic symbols of laptops, and they are also different from desktops in the scalability of laptops. With the PCMCIA slot DIY USB flash drive, not only make full use of the notebook computer's dedicated slots, and the day after inserting will not bring trouble, why not?

Find a PCMCIA card reader

The key to DIY notebook computer is to buy the appropriate card reader. In addition to the inconvenient USB interface products mentioned above, there is also a PCMCIA card reader designed specifically for laptops. According to the data Bandwidth Division, PCMCIA Card Reader has 16-bit and 32-bit two categories, and according to the type of memory card supported, PCMCIA card reader can be divided into four-in-one card reader, five-in-one card reader and CF card reader. Four All-in-one card reader can support sm/sd/mmc/ms four kinds of memory cards, while the five-in-all-in-one card reader is based on the former to increase the support for XD card. At present, most of the products of Tetraena one or five are based on 32-bit bus design, faster, the price is not high (about 100 yuan), and CF card because of the size and the definition of pins, the card reader is often designed to a single structure, bus design are 32, the price of 150 yuan. It should be noted that the vast majority of card readers can be automatically identified under Windows XP operating system without the need to install a driver to use. Only some of the older products are excepted.

Select the appropriate storage card

Today, the type of memory card and a lot of brands, a number of subjects have reached a dizzying level. So how should we choose the right memory card when we DIY USB flash drive? The author thinks that should be based on the actual situation of the individual, that is, from the hands of the existing types of handheld devices to consider, in order to achieve the notebook computer and handheld devices between the information transfer.

First of all, in order to meet the DC, handheld game consoles and other equipment needs, the market appears a large number of SD card and CF card high-speed products, if you have the hands of high-end DC, handheld game consoles and other equipment, high-speed memory card is naturally the choice, such products can not only significantly reduce the data copy time, and the month can also give DIY USB flash drive "Speed up".

Secondly, if you are a photography enthusiast and so on capacity has a higher demand for users, that large capacity storage card is undoubtedly the first choice. Now the memory card is very cheap, the past thousand, or even thousands of of yuan memory card now as long as hundreds of yuan can be bought, so considering the future application, even if the capacity does not have higher requirements, should also be 1GB for the minimum purchase capacity.

Finally in the brand, I suggest to buy as much as possible brand household goods, such as SanDisk, Kingston and so on. After all, the excellent quality of such brands and after-sales service can fundamentally solve our worries.

Hands-on Teaching you DIY

When the card reader and memory card are in hand, the secretary to start DIY flash drive. In fact, the method is simple, just insert the memory card into the card reader, and then insert the reader into the PCMCIA expansion slot of the notebook computer. After the system loads its own driver, we can operate like a regular USB drive. However, we need to remind you that CF card reader has a design, if you can not insert the situation should not use brute force, may wish to try another direction. As for the All-in-one card reader, due to the need for compatibility, there is no relevant anti-stay design, before inserting the best careful reference to the manual. When not using the card reader, as long as gently press the expansion slot button, this DIY USB flash drive will automatically eject, the use of very convenient.

This can completely ' hide ' into the notebook computer fuselage inside the USB drive is not very convenient, quickly DIY a bar.