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iodd 2501
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:05 pm
by Victor Chew
Some of you will no doubt find this useful:
http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2 ... dness.html
In short, it is a 2.5" USB HDD casing that emulates a CDROM drive from ISO images stored on the SATA HDD itself.
That way, you can boot any ISO image from the HDD without having to deal with integration issues using isolinux or grub4dos.
That should make a memory stick version of this thing, and support floppy disk images as well. Then it would be perfect!
Re: iodd 2501
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:09 am
by Icecube
There is also a similar product with uses a SD card, which is open source.
USB CD Emulation Project:
http://renosite.com/
Re: iodd 2501
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:21 pm
by Victor Chew
Thanks! That's mighty interesting too!
I am not much of a hardware guy. I hope someone builds and sells it commercially. If it can be reduced to the size of a USB memory stick, so much the better!
Re: iodd 2501
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:15 am
by Icecube
Re: iodd 2501
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:40 pm
by The Piney
It appears that iodd sold the patent to Zalman for this. The first version out was the ZM-VE200 which had USB 2.0 and eSATA connectors. They have recently released a newer version which doesn't have the eSATA but has USB 3.0.
Here are some links with a bit of information:
Manufacturer:
http://www.zalman.com/eng/product/Produ ... sp?idx=459
Reviews from MPECS Inc. Blog:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2012/01/product ... -3-25.html
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2012/02/product ... an-zm.html
Review from Mad Shrimps:
http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/artic ... ure-Review
I ordered one of these along with a WD Scopion and it's taken a bit longer to get because the company oversold the stock and had to wait for delivery due to a back order. I am supposed to be getting mine later today (2/27).
Here is the site I ordered mine through:
http://www.excaliberpc.com/611849/zalma ... ernal.html
I'll post back with some results after I've received it and had some time to check it out.
I'd really like to get one of those SD card units as well some time in the very near future.