Datel to launch 4GB hard drive for PSP (Update)

[SCAAMMM]

It's the european date system. 20th October 2005.

[shangrula]

This Website says the release date is 20/10/2005 Does something sound odd about that date??? Kinda like it doesnt exist. As far as I know thiers only 12 months in a year. Am I right or did I miss something?


http://www.darkplanets.co.uk/datel-4gb-harddrive.asp

lol, the amercian date system is that one that makes no sense.

Also shadowprophet you got a bit too much anger there m8, it's only a games console

[ace_t]

Well for a start it is a UK website, and as you are probably not aware (by your comment), us Brits quote the date different from you Yanks.

DD/MM/YYYY rather than your MM/DD/YYYY

Makes it quite confusing some times!

[leggy]

As usuall all new products are overpriced but eventually the price will plummet.

Afterall, the PSP hasn't been around long.

Give things time and I am sure decent, cheap harddrives will come along.

[Hevyduty]

Just wanted to make sure people know that you can do some of this stuff already. If you have a USB On-The-Go (OTG) storage device, you can transfer data back and forth from your PSP and the USB device.

Certain MP3 players can do this, as well as some USB hard drive enclosures. Of course, there are some limitations:

* The USB storage device must be USB OTG capable, as mentioned before. This means it can run in USB host mode.
* The USB device must have it's own power source (i.e., the PSP can't power it through the USB cable)
* The USB device must have an LCD screen/interface so you can select the files/folders to transfer to and from the PSP.
* From the PSP, you can't run files directly from the USB storage device. You have to first transfer the files to the memstick on the PSP and then you can use them.

So if you already have a big memstick, you could just load up your MP3 player or portable HDD with gigs of content and hit the road. After watching a movie on your PSP, you could delete it from the memstick and transfer a new movie on there.

Here are a couple of links for the interested:

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000253044889/

http://www.supermediastore.com/apace...rooglehardware

And those are only a couple of options. You can find more if you Google.

Another interesting device is the Macally Sync Box II. This thing is a USB OTG brigde that can transfer files between any two USB devices, like your PSP and a card reader or a common flash drive.

http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/inpu.../syncbox2.html

In the long term, I like the idea of the USB HDD cables those teams are working on, especially if they allow you to run files directly from the USB storage device.

In the short term, I think an immediate breakthrough would be a way to run the PSP in USB OTG mode. Then the PSP could be the intelligent device sucking down files from any USB storage source. It annoys me that my super powerful game system just sits there like a lump when it's in USB mode.

Obviously, the Datel product has some advantages over the above options, particulary a full 4GB block of usable data. But in the end, I think it's too expensive, too slow, too small, and it makes your PSP too ugly.

[ace_t]

And why would anyone even consider buying this at $250, if you do a froogle search, you can pick up a 4gb Pro Duo for $300, which will most likely drop in price very soon. So you can achieve the same storage without the bulky add ons making you PSP into a bloody tank!

[shadowprophet]

lol, the amercian date system is that one that makes no sense.

Also shadowprophet you got a bit too much anger there m8, it's only a games console

Ah ya gotta overlook me somtimes shangrula
Some days are better then others

And that beside the point.
You know what really makes me angry?
The fact that as upset as I am/was at this whole hard drive x2 batt thing.
Im dieing to have them, I know its a money scam. I know that in true sony tradition the psp hard drive will have little to no support.

And if there is any truth to the growing anxity in the far outreaches of my mind, The psp hard drive will be a trap.

First off you will have to update to some un exploitible bios version to use the damn thing (who knows by then 4.5 or somthing) eithe way. Bye bye emu collection. Then there will be some type of drawback to the copying of umd's onto the hd. (that is to be expected tho) But it wouldnt suprize me any if they figure out a way or block it entirely to where people cant run videos from it.
Its true that it is just a console. But so was the ps2. I was one of the few suckers that bought final fantasy xi thinking wow a ps hard drive, what possibilities could it hold.

The truth is other then the few hacks that exisist for it. its useless.
To anyone that bought the ps2 hard drive, Im sure there disstrust of sony in this respect has us just a little more then scepticle

[urherenow]

Then maybe I'll buy it, when I know I can strap on a 350 gig hard drive and be good to go.

Can I please have some of what you're smoking? A 350 gig hard drive is bigger than the PSP. And where is the power for that thing going to come from? You sound like an 8 year old idiot. the 4GB drive is a MICRO DRIVE that will be encased in a shell that will make the left side of the PSP match the contour of the right side (with the x2 battery installed). and it's only a cable that goes from the device into the memory card slot.

Some other poster above seems to think that the micro drive will directly plug in to the memory card slot. as if...

Also, some people here miss a major point (asking what you can do with it that you can't do with a 1GB duo) a UMD is a max of 1.8GB. What you can do with it is play ALL games from the device which while slow (if it is slow), will still be faster than a UMD, and do this without ripping anything out of the game at all. Sure you can find a 2GB memory card on line if you look hard enough but with a 4 GIG device you know you can fit no less than 2 FULL games on the sucker and still have room for a bit of homebrew.

Firmware to disable it? Impossible. It's designed to look like a memory stick pro duo (the flat ribbon cable plugs into the memory card slot, ya know?)

Think people!

[Darkshard]

All of the complaints for this product are indeed valid, but remember, some might find more use for this than others.

Only reason I wouldn't want the USB HDD function is because I really don't want to be bothered with taking my USB device or computer wherever I go. This isn't a laptop or something like that, I want as few seperate accessories to carry as possible.

Bulky? Ugly? If you want fashion with you system, then go buy a Gameboy Micro, that's pretty much the iPod of handhelds anyway. Personally, I feel the PSP is too thin for its size, the HDD and the battery can double as handgrips, so it'll feel more like a console controller than say an oddly shaped digital camera.

Basically what I'm saying is, I want this product because it is a fully portable option that not only gives you more memory than the rest, but you also get the battery with it.

Not to say I hate the USB HDD idea, that'd be a lot of ripped gam-- er... music to fit on it. lol

[shangrula]

just togo a bit offtopic, shadowprophet, I loved my hard drive on my ps2

I also had no idea u can get 4gb duo's for $300 I hate america for ot's low prices on everything. Over in the UK that thing would probably be more like $600+

edit: can't see any duo's on froogle for $300...nono