Yesterday i've been in a neighbour city and when going back i've decided to change my plans - and look for a 5.25 outside ide case and some memory card to be used as efika storage. After visiting few shops i've managed to get everything i wanted in the last one i would think was going to have it. Anyway - I've got a nice looking and well build aluminium case and a 2 GB Kingston (elite pro 50x - so about 7.5 MB/s, maybe more - single 1x is about 150 KB/s). It cost me more or less 30 usd (90 pln) for a case and slightly more than 60 usd (160 pln) for a memory card. Not bad, or maybe very well, comparing to what i i've seen in other places. Anyway, i've unpacked it just after returning home - and was quite suprised (in a positive meaning) to discover what was inside. Actualy everything possible, a case itself, power supply (a nice brick), drivers (for this funny system that needs it, windows or something like it;), manual in english (another useless gadget, i actualy know very well how to install drivers in windows;) and even a...screwdriver with a lot of screws. That one was definitelly nice. Of course i've took quite a lot of pictures, so what's left to say...better look yourself. Here there are.
What i've got...

unpacked...

won't have much use from it...

yes, the screwdriver was _really_ included. pretty amazing :)

ok, let's go inside of this box...

well, having it on the table i could not refuse myself making a little test - putting some cdrom inside. so i did - and the performance was closer to my old 4x cdrom ages ago that anything similar. average transfer when copying entire cd about 600 KB/s. The only advantage of this test (except for learning to never ever use cdrom via usb) was that i've took few more shoots. At least it looks much better than works ;)



anyway, i haven't bought it for keeping cdrom in! so i thought and immidiatelly begun to disassemble it. it took a while, but was easy and here are the effects


i've took some more shots and switched to some other things, non-computers releated. some random shots below





till the next time!