Comments on: Archos hits 100GB for portable video player

Company ups storage capacity on portable, hard-drive-based device that holds and plays back music and video.

[Willy Wonker]

2.5 Hard drive?

Is this same hard drive put into notebooks?

[owenowen3]

it is....

Read this.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1202946,00.asp


I had the same issue with mine, except it locked up a lot. Archos tried to blame me. funny, when I look back. i took it back to the reatiler when I couldn't get the issue fixed.

[owenowen3]

Archos

I've had nothing but problems with 2 of my Archos problems. I had a guy E-Mail me from ArchosSucks.com with some firmware for my vid player that takes away some of the lockup issues, but it still persists.

I'm done with them. I river is next. Hope they are better.

HD or solid state?

I think it's strange to see more & more development of PORTABLE devices, based on HD storage. I heard Apple is closing on a solid state storage for an iPod & I can't wait.

Of course, what you gain in battery life, you lose in capacity - except if the device allows REMOVABLE media cards. Then that evens it up with HD's.

[d2r4]

really...

me thinks you missed the point of HD based players... if you wan't solid state buy a flash player

[grey_eminence]

100 TERABYTE 3.5 in Optical Disk

http://colossalstorage.net

[Stating]

Seems Pricey. Here's A Better Solution.

Get yourself a laptop that is on sale, with a decent size hard drive and DVD. Add a USB TV tuner card. For about the same money as the Archeros you will have a portable multimedia device that not only records TV, plays DVDs and music, and displays your digital photos but also gives you wireless, email, games, and can run your spreadsheets. A much better value for the same price, and it is expandable/upgradeable.

Keith
www.techcando.com