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1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive

Posted by timothy on from the lervely dept.

Jin-Wei Tioh writes "The folks at BlueSmoke take a look at Transcend's recently announced 1.8" USB 2.0 portable hard drive, the only one of its kind on the market. Roughly the size of a small stack of business cards, it is quite a bit smaller than existing 2.5" drives. It holds either 20GB or 40GB of data and is styled like an iPod."

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  1. "Styled like an iPod? by InternationalCow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Excuse me? It is flat, rectangular and whitish by the look of the ./-ed site. Apart from that it doesn't look like an iPod at all. Since when is everything that is rectangular and flat styled like an iPod? Is a paperweight styled like an iPod? Or an iced cake? Please, think before you post.

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  2. ADS Pyro DV by MacFury · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.adstech.com/products/API_820/intro/API8 20intro.asp?pid=API820 They have a DV drive that you can plug into a FireWire camera and record straight to the hard drive. I want one, but I haven't been able to find any reviews on the product so I'm reluctant to spend $700.

    1. Re:ADS Pyro DV by Pfhor · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The added benefit of shooting on tape, is once you have it imported, you can lock the tape and keep it somewhere safe, so you atleast have some backup of the video. And with timecodes, you can reimport footage X if someone got carried away with a filter or you scratch drive got munged.

      Would you see someone doing lots of quick shooting and editing (blitz movie making became an aspect of the doc. film class I took this last semester) being able to benefit from something like the firestore? or the Pyro DV?

      It took a week to get all our video logged and digitized for the final class project, so the last thing I want to do now for our make up shots is to have to sit down and digitize it all again.

  3. Its very simple.. by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Take a PDA with a reasonable CPU (one that could handle say low-res divx playing at a decent framerate)

    2) Include built in hard-drive

    3) Profit

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    1. Re:Its very simple.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      There are already pdas that can handle microdrives and no one is impressed by the battery life of these monstrosities

    2. Re:Its very simple.. by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Insightful

      2a) Devise new battery technology

    3. Re:Its very simple.. by cloudless.net · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Can save energy with other components too, for example the supposedly great OLED display, new energy-saving CPU, or even a more efficient OS. Or perhaps somebody can make a harddisk less power hungry.

  4. With decent storage this size... by Kegster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long before we start to see PDAs with hard-drive based storage?

    Then the only limit on the software will be the processor speed and battery life.

    Who wouldn't want a system like that that you could fit into your back pocket?

  5. What I want to know is by geeber · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long until portable data storage integrated with built in WiFi becomes standard? Just walk up to any computer, set it down, type in the password and you are good to go. No cables required.

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