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Everything Else => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Archos forum => Topic started by: tripdad on November 30, 2006, 02:30:21 pm
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On a hunch I bought a 120 gb Western Digital Portable HD to try and see if I could hook it into my AV500 100 gb USB A port. I thought for sure the port would not have enough power to run the drive, but it does. I can play movies directly from the portable drive. I tried this out both on AC operation and battery and it worked well. I do think that the battery would be eaten up very quickly though.
I plan to load the 120 gb drive up with video and reserve the majority of the 100gb Archos drive for music files. This way I can take a large collection of video with me and play (with AC attached) most likely from hotels. I tried a file transfer from the portable HD to the Archos and it did OK, just very slow.
Here is a link to the drive at Target. It list for $179, but is on sale at $117 right now.
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-...asin=B000HZGQ9C (http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-3/qid=1164914763/ref=sr_1_3/602-7686680-9537468?ie=UTF8&asin=B000HZGQ9C)
Tim
P.S. This forum seems to be dying. Not much activity.