I've been looking around, but can't find what I want.
Which is, essentially, a portable MP3 player which will accommodate a 2.5" IDE hard disk drive.
They used to abound. I had a Creative Zen, but that died about a year ago. Since then I've been stuck with a tiny 4Gb (
"tiny" - that used to be massive, beyond comprehension, in the '80s) device. It works, but means I can't take everything with me I want.
I need about 80Gb for my current music library. One capable of taking a drive, but empty, ie an MP3 playing portable caddy, would be great as I have lots of spare 2.5" IDE drives.
Which is, essentially, a portable MP3 player which will accommodate a 2.5" IDE hard disk drive.
They used to abound. I had a Creative Zen, but that died about a year ago. Since then I've been stuck with a tiny 4Gb (
"tiny" - that used to be massive, beyond comprehension, in the '80s) device. It works, but means I can't take everything with me I want.I need about 80Gb for my current music library. One capable of taking a drive, but empty, ie an MP3 playing portable caddy, would be great as I have lots of spare 2.5" IDE drives.




That's like saying there's no such thing as lossless file compression, when that's what a ZIP archive is. You can compress numerical patterns without chucking anything away, that's what's done by FLAC etc.