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Old January 28th, 2004, 09:24 AM
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What would you say is a fair price for a 10GB flash player?
Technology is changing faster than ever these days. Not long ago a 64MB flash player was as good as it got. Now you can get more than 1 GB in a player and the size is shrinking everyday.

Within 18 months I envison 10GB as possible.

1. would you buy a 10GB flash over a HD player?

2. what would you be willing to pay for a unit?

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Old January 28th, 2004, 09:50 AM
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Re: What would you say is a fair price for a 10GB flash play
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1. would you buy a 10GB flash over a HD player?
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2. what would you be willing to pay for a unit?
About the same price I payed for the ihp-120 (310 GBP)

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Old January 28th, 2004, 10:17 AM
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1. would you buy a 10GB flash over a HD player?
If I read the question as a 10Gig Flash vs. a 10Gig HD then almost certainlly, better battery, no moving parts. However, flash drives currently have a 1 million write limit per sector. So I'd be curious as to the internal workings of any flash player I would consider buying, knowing how/if it uses swap files especially. However, a 10 Gig Flash vs. a 40Gig HD, no way, not enough space for me personally.

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2. what would you be willing to pay for a unit?
About as much as I'd pay for a 15 gig HD I figure, not sure what that would be, but I figure 50% capacity is about what the flash is worth to me.

That said, I don't foresee a single flash card based 10 Gig player for at least two years. Perhaps like some of those prototype video recorders though, a 4 x 2.5 gig Flash player. In fact, I can see alot of coolness with that concept, a little brick, which you can swap out 2.5gig flash cards. Would allow you to swap out parts of your memory....

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Old January 28th, 2004, 04:59 PM
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It would want to have USB2 and flash ram fast enough to allow decent transfer speeds. Imagine filling a 10Gb iFP390 - hours of thumb twiddling! I imagine 10Gb of fast flash ram would put the price out of affordability for a few years yet. Then again, the pace of development is so quick...
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Old January 29th, 2004, 12:15 AM
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10gig flash eh?

i would guess in todays market...about $600+
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Old February 16th, 2004, 07:13 PM
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Well... after CES 2004, 8GB compact flash cards with (i believe?) 52x write speed are just around the corner
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