Friday, March 5, 2004
Wired: "Cannibals Descend on MP3 Players"
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 11:30 AM
"Digital photographers have found a source of cheap microdrives for their cameras: Creative Technology's MuVo2 digital music player. Like Apple Computer's iPod mini, the MuVo2 is based on a 4-GB microdrive from Hitachi. But while the Hitachi microdrive retails for about $500 when sold as a storage device for digital cameras, the MuVo2 costs about $200. As someone put it on a website forum, you get the microdrive for more than 50 percent off, and a free pair of headphones."
This story has been kicking around for over a month, so I'm a little surprised that Wired is just picking it up now. If this sounds tempting, you'd better act fast: I read a comment from someone who contacted Hitachi, and they're starting to put a new version of the hard drive in the MuVo2 that won't work in other devices, just like the one in the iPod mini. 4 GB of storage...nice! But I shudder to think what this would do to the battery life on my camera - I think I'll stick to my 2 GB worth of CF flash memory that I carry with my camera (1 GB x 1, 512 MB x 2). Anyone tried this hack to get the 4 GB micro drive?
This story has been kicking around for over a month, so I'm a little surprised that Wired is just picking it up now. If this sounds tempting, you'd better act fast: I read a comment from someone who contacted Hitachi, and they're starting to put a new version of the hard drive in the MuVo2 that won't work in other devices, just like the one in the iPod mini. 4 GB of storage...nice! But I shudder to think what this would do to the battery life on my camera - I think I'll stick to my 2 GB worth of CF flash memory that I carry with my camera (1 GB x 1, 512 MB x 2). Anyone tried this hack to get the 4 GB micro drive?
