PCMCIA card in WL500W

While upgrading my WL500W to 128MB I noticed that the WL500W has soldering isles and holes in the PCB to connect a PCMCIA connector!

• Has anyone tried to connect a PCMCIA card to the router? Did it work?
• If I connected a SATA card and a SATA HDD, would that speedup the transfer rates compared to a USB drive? I have read several times that 2MB/sec is about the max with USB but why is that? Is that a hardware or a driver issue?

Thanks,
Pim.

Very skeptical since the processor works @ 260MHz.

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Originally Posted by Tamadite

Very skeptical since the processor works @ 260MHz.

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What is the bottleneck? If both storage and network interfaces use DMA, the CPU shouldn't be the bottleneck.