I thought the price was justified b/c the CF cards were included, but these are NOT included so you're spot on. That means this SATA drive shell is about $165 more expensive than the IDE version.

Why is this so expensive? The IDE versions cost only about $20.

Ah, yes. You are correct, sir. Kit Eaton explains, "The new version now accepts CF 3x cards and can create drives between 2GB and a crazy (and impossible, for now) 2TB in size. So you could buy a pair of 32GB CF cards for around $270, add in $192.57 for the DIY drive and you'd have a 64GB SATA SSD for about $460 — less than half the cost of the 64GB MacBook Air's drive. Not bad, eh? Available from May 1st."

For the record, I still think this is a very cool piece of gear, even though CF cards aren't too fast - rigging them up to a standard SATA interface is neatos.

Uhm.. I think this should be "2 GB". 2 TB would be mighty impressive. :)