music player with 80 GB hard drive
 

Does anyone know if somebody is gonna to release a ipod size player with 80 gb or bigger?

thanks

I sure hope so, because I have well over that amount of music on my hard drive (not including videos... I don't collect videos.)

If they do, I'd imagine the price range being around 500-600, though.

Not too affordable for most people.

There was a story on the internet saying that Toshiba sold large numbers of 80 and 100 GB HD to somebody.

It wouldn't even be worth it.

The hard drives fail on these things so often, I wouldn't find a need for 80 gigs of music before the thing breaks.

I'm not even half full with my (most recent) 30 gig iPod.
I mean, I have well over 150+ gigs of mp3s, but I barely need that much when I'm out.

I can only see a use for 80 gigs if it's a video player, as well.

No one but really lazy people need that much space on their iPod hard drive. I bet you don't even listen to half the shit you have on your current 60GB, just delete that Kelly Clarkson album you never touched and add new music.

Personally, I'd be more interested in a 20+ gig nano.

Now that would be impressive. Flash-based players don't have moving parts, and don't break AS easily (they still break, but at least you don't have to worry about swinging the player around).

wtf is up with the ipod discussion in this bitch. we have a hardware forum here for a reason :(

I despise any kind of portable device that happens to have moving parts. It's just asking to broken with the first month under ownership. While technically a hard can be faster, Flash-based media is where it's at.

Besides, I can't see a mass of people actually wanting more than 20GB of MP3s to carry around.

Archos AV700 Portable DVR (100GB)

Have fun paying $550 or higher for this (pretty average) player. You really don't have any options, either. Well, besides waiting for other companies, that is.

I have a 40-gig iPod. The extra space is nice, but I've only managed to fill it with approximately 25 gigs of music. (No videos. Fuck videos.)

Although I can appreciate the novelty of having 40 gigs of music in one device, realistically, I must ask: what purpose is there truly in storing so much? It's one thing to say you have all that stuff, but do you even realize how long it would take you to listen to it all? The battery would go dead long before you even managed to hear 25% of that collection.

How many times have you been someplace where you were able to listen to 8-10 hours of music for nothing else to do? And even with the standard 20-40 gig players, how much of your collection do you truly listen to on a routine basis? (I'm an exception to these questions, ironically, I believe. I listen to just about everything at least once in each two-week span. It occupies my mind as I go about during each 32-hour work week.)

It's at this point that I feel the capacity to create an 80-gig music player truly exceeds anyone's practical need for so much moving memory.

Once you get bigger than 30GB, the drives get bigger, dual platter, blah blah blah.

Of course the Viliv p2 is rumoured to be released in a 60GB version, and one of the iUbis (I forget which, the PMP2010 or something like that) is to be released in a 100GB version although I could be wrong.

Also iirc Samsung has a 32gb NAND flash memory component going.

Yeah the AV700 was just really big. I have the AV420, which was a freaking awesome device at the time I got it, paving the way for of its kind nowadays. But, what you may want to look at is the Archos 100GB AV500, a step in the right direction for Archos. It's got good reviews everywhere. And it's even more compact than the one I have, plus better video.

Wow. I might get myself this and give the AV420 to my dad or something. :p

The appeal of having more music on a portable device isn't that you'll listen to all of it, but that it gives you a wider choice of what to listen to. At least that's my take on it. I don't even own an mp3 player.

With my 20GB PMP, I liked filling it up because I don't update the content on it too often. That way, even if it's been weeks since I last put music on it, there's still a ton of stuff that I either haven't listened to yet or only heard a few times. Also for those long trips, you can be sure it'll never loop. But basically, a wider choice. I put video on mine (anime and tv shows and some music videos usually) to watch on the go, so bigger is useful for me too. So it just comes down to that wider choice. My brother has the 512 MB iPod Shuffle, which suits him just fine since he likes to always be managing his list.

It may also be wroth mentioning that the AV500 in my above post can work with iTunes as well, for those of you who use that. I'm sooo upgrading.

I remember hearing that there was a procedure to take out a 20 gig hard drive from a 4th gen iPod and put in a 40 gig one. I wonder if the same would work for 80?
But yeah, 80 gigs is pushing it to say the least. Unless youhave a SOLAR POWERED MP3 player, your going to run out of juice long before you rn out of new songs.