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5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos

Posted by timothy on from the horning-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several manufacturers produce hard drive-based MPEG-4 portables now, but to date they are all big and heavy devices weighing in at around 3/4 of a pound. Archos just announced the Gmini 400, a 20GB video/audio player that comes in at the iPod's dimensions and light 5.6 ounces. Presently shipping, I guess they are ready now for the iPod Video in case that player ever becomes more that a /. myth."

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  1. Re:The rotating machinery has got to go by Doppler00 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    CF is also pretty slow and has orders of magnitude fewer rewrites.

    Fewer rewrites compared to a mechanical hard drive? I doubt it. The hard drive will likely fail much sooner from mechanical wear than a flash drive would. Besides, how many of us have written over a flash memory device over 100,000 times? Not too many people I assume. Don't forget that most flash memory writes data in a circular manner to prevent any single area of the card from being overwritten constantly. You would have to write over several terrabytes of data to a single CF card before it would fail.