Datel Space Dock Adds External Hard Drive to PS3 and Xbox 360

[wraggster]

http://cache-06.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/160x120_spacedock.jpg

Adding a USB hard drive to your PS3 or Xbox 360 isn't as simple as plugging it in (and on the 360 especially, it's pretty much a hack). But Datel's new Space Docks make the process simple.

http://gizmodo.com/5472797/datel-space-dock-adds-external-hard-drive-to-ps3-and-xbox-360

[phsychokill]

thats more of a 360 device, you can hook any external drive up to a PS3 with he exact same features (just it has to be formatted in FAT32 but still easy to do)

so really this is just a waste of $40 on the PS3 as if you were going to buy a 1tb 2.5 inch drive you would just swap out the old 2.5inch drive from the PS3. it even tells you how to do this in the PS3 instruction book and has 0 affect on your warranty as sony advises you take the hard drive out before sending the console to them anyway.

[symbal]

M$ already blocked Datel's memory cards so i'm betting if a fw update can block this it'll happen soon.

[Sonicboy 101]

Knowing Datel's track record, it's bound to be dodgy...

[symbal]

Well yes Datel steals from the homebrew scenes and uses official code, but M$ sells peripherals at least a 300% markup and Datel sells cheaper and the best part is they stop M$ from having that absolute peripheral sales monopoly they trying to get by blocking every third party peripheral, i mean does anyone here really want them to have even more money, right now i fully support Datel's dodgy behaviour.

[Shrygue]

Until Microsoft sells hard disk shells for end users to place their own size drive of choice (which will be like never), the Space Dock could probably suffice until a firmware update stops it.

[symbal]

Actually thinking about it a fw update might not be able to block this, because i think this makes the 360 recognise the drive as a standard flash drive, so either M$ can completely block flash drives through usb which would kill any multimedia aspirations it has, or somehow limit flash drive size to say 64gb so only old hdd's work.

[Qmark]

Forty bucks?

http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-USB-DSC5-3-5-Inch-Converter-Adapter/dp/B000HJ99DI/ref=sr_1_1
One of those things will achieve the same end result (disguising a IDE or SATA HDD as a USB mass storage device) for half the price.

All Datel is doing is taking the same device PC-repair guys have been using for years, and slapping a (barely) pretty shell around it.