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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. Re:Whats the point? by tlhIngan · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Well, for those who have legally dumped their games onto memory sticks and played them, the speed increase is *wonderful*. A lot of games have very low load times now (and it seems a few have hard coded delays since they show the developer/publisher/etc splash screens with no UMD/memory stick activity.

      UMD is slow. Pathetically slow. (Slow enough that the UMDs often have dummy data near the beginning to shove the real data to the end of the UMD, where it can be read much faster, as well as possibly to make it easier to seek around). It's also nice that I can store my games in two 512MB memory sticks (plus have space for a few homebrew emulators). Much smaller than carrying a few UMDs and cases. This will be good for those with larger collections to carry around.

      Plus there are a few that use it as their iPod Video... holds a few more movies. Or a few more MP3s.

  2. PSP by Mr.+Vandemar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Portable Secret Porn! This will probably create some awkward public transportation encounters for me...

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    Vandemar.org
  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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."
  6. Combine this with the TV adapter! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And this on the heels of the announcement of the TV adapter!
     
    So combine the hard drive plus the TV adapter, and your PSP can now serve as a ... comfortable home for a family of four?

  7. 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!!

  8. Datel broke MagicGate. by Col.+Bloodnok · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.