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Datels 4GB Hard Drive for PSP Reviewed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-such-thing-as-too-much-storage dept.

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."

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  1. Whats the point? by Hellad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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...

    1. Re:Whats the point? by richy+freeway · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It doubles up as a larger battery as well.

  2. Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Can't put it in your pocket by blackmonday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. Nicer is Relative by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Insightful
    a much nicer price of $199 instead of the rather high $249 which was originally

    $50/GB ($49.75+tax/GB for the purists) leaves me believing that you and I have a different definition of nicer.

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  5. It is a ripoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!!