Mikhailtech has posted a Kingston 5GB DataPak PC Card HDD & Reader review

The solution to this mess is the mini HDD (IBM's smaller version is the Microdrive). The disk that Kingston offers, dubbed the DataPak, is somewhat of an oddity. Coming in at 1.8" it's not exactly a standard 3.5" HDD or a smaller 2.5" notebook part. Instead, it's small enough to be considered a Type II PCMCIA card (taking up only one of two slots offered with most laptops), while sporting either 2GB or 5GB of storage depending on the model. And it's several times cheaper than any USB drive can lay claim to, while comparable in speed. In addition to the actual HDD, Kingston also sent over a USB1.1 ATA reader.

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