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Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed
PSP News writes "The announcement that Datel was producing a 4GB Hard Drive addon was just the thing the PSP Community was looking for and today Lik Sang has done a great hands on review of the product that provides more details and a much nicer price of $199 instead of the rather high $249 which was originally posted."
..... Homebrew apps and porn you can store.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
I for one welcome our new 4GB warez .. errr.. homebrew overlords
With sony's efforts to kill the homebrew market, whats the point? For music? iPod. I guess for video, but a giant harddrive like that seems to be a detriment rather than an addition...
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Portable Secret Porn! This will probably create some awkward public transportation encounters for me...
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So, it's only $450 to get a PSP+4GB hard drive. Um.. great.
How long until we can just give up on and start addressing it as what it is: a high-end PDA with high-end PDA prices and, coincidentally, a D-Pad?
In the meantime, just for the record, if you go out and buy a 30GB Video iPod plus a Nintendo DS, your grand total will be $420. Just saying.
Why not use RAM technology in a light compact portable stick?
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If you're going to use a battery-slurping technology like hard disk with all those moving parts, you should at least offer more than what modern RAM technology can store (i.e. the 1,2,4 GB range) on the disc since it wouldn't require any more size or power resources to go from 4GB HDD to 10 or 20GB.
You'd get a lot more for your money and could actually store all your portable data, such as a decent song collection in mp3/ogg/wma as well as some videos of TV shows perhaps and some photos.
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The pics show a much bulkier PSP. It's almost impossible to pocket a PSP now, forget about it with this add-on. The article has some interesting points, 4 GB is the largest capacity supported by the PSP's OS, and inside the gadget is a run of the mill 4GB microdrive that can be swapped with Compact Flash cards (better battery power?). They didn't reveal the battery impact of this gadget, its still in "testing" phase.
A SanDisk 4GB Memory Stick Pro Edition is $243 on the consumer market, meaning its cost in a business to business transaction for such purposes could be as low as $100 or $150, and they could still mark it up $50 to $100.
All that, plus lighter and much longer battery life considering reading/writing to RAM is so inexpensive from a power standpoint versus doing the same to hard disk with all those moving parts.
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4 gigs of pr0n to go? Sound like a winner to me.
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$50/GB ($49.75+tax/GB for the purists) leaves me believing that you and I have a different definition of nicer.
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And this on the heels of the announcement of the TV adapter!
... comfortable home for a family of four?
So combine the hard drive plus the TV adapter, and your PSP can now serve as a
.. not of PSP, but of GP32X of course [since its an extremely inexpensive open gaming system, ripe for hobby, potent new-market development], and i'll be bunging one of these babies in it which, fortunately for me, are not quite as expensive as the press releases parrot, at least not in decent bulk orders .. a condition undoubtedly set to diminish, as the market floods with bigger and bigger SD cards.
.. no game machine worth its salt doesn't get chucked around, or at least thats the way i see game machines. i'd be happier if i could use SD in the PSP, natively, without requiring 3rd-party accessorization, anyway ..
so, i think its a bit passé to be cheery about this hard drive business on PSP. hard drives are terrible things to chuck around, and well
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If only there were some way to play futuristic racing games and watch storebought movies other than the PSP
Looks to me like the new setup is/was able to run for around 24 hours under the new setup. I'm not surprised, given the size of the thing... I mean, it fits the lines of the device fine so it doesn't look out of place, and supposedly it doesn't weigh that much, according to their stats, but damn that's huge for a handheld device. Certainly doesn't really qualify as a pocket device with those attachements.
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...you can buy a used laptop with better graphics and much more storage for less money than a PSP+4Gb HDD. Sure, an old laptop might not be something cool to show off to your friends, but you can run games on a laptop. Come to think of it, I think you could get a new laptop for that price.
The 4GB drive inside is not a Hitachi or Toshiba, but a Magicstor microdrive, which is much ceaper. On February I purchased two Magicstor 4 GB microdrives for $79.95 a piece. How do the justify the $120 difference?. A box and a board are worth $120?. They wanted to charge even more, $249, that is $170 for the board and the box!!
It's not 24 hours, it's that they are still testing and will update the site within 24 hours. :)
Where'd you get the impression that it'll run for around 24 hours? The PSP they're testing hasn't died yet, but when it does, the comparison will be updated within 24 hours of it being posted.
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For the price of this add-on and a PSP you can nearly get a brand new laptop. Talk about homebrew apps! Think of all the things you could do with a laptop! Play DVDs, games, view porn, and more!
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Let's not kid ourselves. This is not about putting 4GB of video on the PSP, it's about 4GB of GAMES on the PSP. Right now there is a pent up demand for a larger storage device on the PSP. Many people who became aware of the cracked status of the PSP ran out and bought a 1GB memory stick. This allowed them to play about 95% of the games released so far. (A small minority are larger than 1GB in size without ripping content from the game). Several people, however balked at the high price of a 2GB memory stick. This 4GB device from Datel serves a very important nitch. The size of a single PSP game is now no longer a blockade to playing a pirated version of said game, and with several games coming in at 200-500MB each, this means one can carry anywhere from 3-10 (or more) games (plus a whole bunch of emus&games) on the PSP at once.
They must be using their GateCrasher chip to pull this off, since it has a memory stick interface.
I have a lot of respect for that firm. Standing up to Sony and creating some really cool products for their closed platform - the hard way.
Now if I'm wrong, so be it. However, based upon the language used, I assumed that they had already updated the psoting of their results within the first 24 hours, and planned to update it further later on. That's all.
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Interesting choice now. I sold my old iPod, and with the money I now have, I was planning on getting a new iPod with video.
The question now is, which is better:
1 iPod Nano so I can listen to all of the songs on my iTunes/Podcasts/Audiobooks, and have the 4 GB PSP add-on to my current PSP so I can have space for multiple reencoded movies to the 4 GB HDD for when I travel
OR
1 iPod with video at 60 GB space, and leave my PSP as it is with a 512 MB card for my homebrew (ah, the joys of never upgrading past 1.50 so I can use my NES/SNES/Genesis/Game Boy emulators as long as I want).
The former means I get better video quality when I travel, but I'll lose out on the iTunes television sales (and, if they start adding Veronica Mars, Mythbusters, and the Daily Show, I might be sorely tempted to use it to catch the episodes I forget to Tivo). The latter means I keep the status quo, and have more storage space.
Odds are I'll go with the latter, but at least now I have another option.
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an Atari Lynx? ;) (model 2)
man, i loved that console. res looks really bad though when you try it now.
but neither go in your pocket without you looking like you're *very* pleased to see *everyone* 'nuff said.
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http://www.psp-hacks.com/2005/10/10/4gb-hard-drive -for-the-sony-psp/ wrote about this too. I'm excited!
Has anyone ever thought that we may have just got the pocket wrong?
this thing makes the psp look like crap.. on top of that, it makes it heavier. psp is way too sexy for this bulky addition.. especially at $199.. no thanks!
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oh great, i want to big ugly things sticking out of a PSP
If you want some serious storage and it's really video you're interested in, the Archos Av500 is a much better idea. The Archos Screen is only a little bit smaller (4 vs 4.2 inches) but the 30GB storage makes up for it. It can also record TV directly and supports more video formats than the PSP.
Do you use linux?
What do you use to recode a DVD to the PSP?
What settings did you use (fps, bandwidth, others) (for Office Space)?
What's the size of the movie?
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I'd rather own four 1 GB memory sticks that I can easily store in a tiny pouch than that hard drive contraption that straps onto the PSP making it slightly bulky, clunky and ugly. Though the sum of the memory sticks would cost more, they should be faster in read/write times anyhow which is a big plus for some.
The PSP needs a case and this product means it doesn't fit in any of the standard ones. Has Datel released a case to suit?
A completely reasonable, utterly sensible $799.99 instead of the unbelievable, irrationably overpriced $800.00.
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or does anyone else think its a rip off paying $250 for the 4 gn ipod nano,$100 for the xbox hdd, and now $199 for this when you can get an external 140+ GB drive for the same price. these aren;t even flash memory drives or some new technology that deserves a high price
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Ok, I love the PSP and all... But we're getting into some pretty rare pricing air here. You just paid $250 for a PSP. another $50 for a game. Maybe $50 to $100 on a decent memory stick. I know! Lets crop another duce and spend $200 for a micro HDD. That's a minimum of nearly $600 we're now investing on a handheld gaming system, assuming you don't buy any other games.
Now I have to point out that the incremental approach that Sony seems to be engaging in is not a bad strategy-- Buy only what you want or can afford, thereby trying to appeal to everybody, and a 4gb micro drive + battery ain't exactly cheap, but we're approaching some rare finacial air here and I wonder if they couldn't have gone about this a better way because I can all but gaurantee that adding one of those on to a handheld is going to be the niche of a niche market, especially when it's iPod competition kicks into gear for price comparison sake. i get the feeling that they're splitting apart their own market doing this...
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money and not debts (and a job to start with) and i could buy a psp, the harddrive and the battery, i would buy it
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How about some games that are worth playing, instead of all of these accessories...
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Playing movie with Standard Battery and SanDisk 1G Memory Stick: 4.45 Hours.
Playing movie with Datel X2 Battery and Datel 4GB Hard Drive: 5.45 Hours.
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Sorry that I wasn't clear on this before; the 4GB is a FAT16 limitation not a PSP limitation; if the stick is formatted differently the data is readable from the PC(and yes USB data reading does go through the firmware; some USB bus drivers are loaded). So the problem is NOT the PSP's firmware as in block count/blocksize but rather the filesystem supported.