MemoryKick Si 500GB Capacity

[Omnipotent]

Hello every one. I am curious as to what your thoughts are one this device. It can have up to 500GB Capacity. The main thing I was curious was on is battery life. I was wondering if any one here has one these since I am quite interested mainly due to its massive capacity that actual would allow me to take my music library any where. Also, I am also curious about how it deals with album art work and navigation but it seem like a very promising device. So any feed back would and thought on it would quite be nice.
http://www.memorykickusa.com/specsSi.html
http://www.amazon.com/500GB-Portable.../dp/B0030CI5ZW

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[The DarkSide]

It's a media vault, not good as a portable music or video player - avoid it at all costs, unless you need it for photo and raw video storage and transport. How good it is is a mystery, and will probably remain so.

[a_tumiwa]

it is storage, i dont think many people here intereste use it as mp3 player

[Omnipotent]

Well I would like to put all my music which is 433 GB of music all most of it loss-less flac files. I am having trouble finding any that meets my needs. Also this doesn't appear to support flac files does any one here know of any thing?

[The DarkSide]

Originally Posted by Omnipotent

Well I would like to put all my music which is 433 GB of music all most of it loss-less flac files. I am having trouble finding any that meets my needs. Also this doesn't appear to support flac files does any one here know of any thing?

Get an iPod 5.5G, throw in the largest HDD that fits, then put RockBox on that bugger - instant FLAC playing portable w/great SQ and EQing.

[paulr]

Originally Posted by Omnipotent

Well I would like to put all my music which is 433 GB of music all most of it loss-less flac files. I am having trouble finding any that meets my needs. Also this doesn't appear to support flac files does any one here know of any thing?

The only name-brand PMP that I know of that supports 500gb is the Archos 5 Internet tablet (and the bigger Archos 7 version). You might be able to upgrade it to 640gb or 750gb with currently available laptop drives. I personally only use flac for archiving on a home computer. For portable listening I find ogg to be good enough. Your 433 gb collection should compress down to under 100gb with good quality. The largest ipod-style drive available is 240gb, I think. So compressing to ogg and using an upgraded 5gen Ipod with rockbox is probably the most convenient solution.

If you want to go much beyond this and stay with FLAC, I think you realistically have to get away from a self-contained battery powered PMP, and go to something like a netbook computer with an external drive. If you're enough of an audiophile to care about FLAC vs Ogg, you probably want audiophile electronics (high end DAC and headphone amplifier) rather than some generic PMP anyway.

Another idea if you just want something portable to listen to at home or at the office (rather than everywhere), is put all the files on a desktop computer with wifi, and use a wifi-equipped portable to access them when you want to listen.

[The DarkSide]

My Archos 5 is 250gb, but you can't just upgrade the HDD yourself - it's specially coded and won't work UNLESS you buy from Archos direct.

As for SQ, the Archos 5 tanks (RE:Sucks) at music playback, and the volume is pathetically low.

A RockBoxed HDD based player is a much better solution IMO.

EDIT: I forgot about the Archos Android PMP's, as they go to 500gb, but the SQ is still the same - YUK!!!

Also, if your in the NYC area, you could PM me and I'd let you test the Archos out for yourself.