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Treó 10: Another Portable Mass Storage Device

Posted by michael on from the stocking-stuffer dept.

mblase writes: ""The Treó 10 is a lightweight, pocket-sized, digital music jukebox with the capacity to store over 3,000 songs - that's 150 hours of music." It's got twice the hard-drive space of Apple's iPod, but also half the RAM, half the battery life, and uses a much slower USB connection instead of FireWire. However, it's PC-compatible using MusicMatch Jukebox right out of the box, and costs only $250 instead of $400 for the iPod. CNet's article compares the two further."

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  1. Let's submit in bytes, not "songs" or "hours" by dstone · · Score: 5, Informative

    with the capacity to store over 3,000 songs - that's 150 hours of music

    First, thank you for the story. But I'm going to plead to audio-device story submitters now: For god's sake, when posting the story to Slashdot, please talk to your fellow geeks in geek-speak, not copy-and-pasted condescending marketing terms. I can get that from CNET or MSN or my local news anchor. 3,000 songs? 150 hours? Based on what bitrate? How big is this compared to a PC hard drive? Will this store my existing collection that takes N gigs? Obviously, we can find the real specs if we hit the company's website, but do us a favor and give us the geeky bits when submitting the story.

    FWIW, this Treo has a 10 gig drive, so I guess the 3,000 song figure is based on approx 3.3 megs per song. (Kind of low, really.) The 150 hour figure is apparently based on something between 128 and 160 kbps.

    Okay, end of rant. Cool device.

  2. Cheap portable mass storage by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 5, Informative
    If it's just the storage you're after, not the MP3 playing, I coincidentally just put up a review of a couple of external boxes that accept a 2.5 inch laptop drive (not really tiny, but not really expensive either...) which both have USB 1.1 and IEEE-1394 connectivity. One of them's pocketable, one of them's bigger and looks like a 3.5 inch drive, for no very good reason. They both let you get 20Gb of decently fast storage (as long as you use the FireWire port) for about half the price of a 5Gb iPod.

    Check it out.