Fujitsu 18GB Disk

As we still aren't shipping, are there any plans to use the new Fujitsu 18GB laptop HD in the empeg production units?


- Andy

Not seen this yet - I'll check it out... 36Gb in a unit? That's a LOT of music... the IBM drives are actually shipping though (they shipped about 6 months after they were announced as available).

Hugo

I'd guess at somewhere around 700 CDs-worth of music, assuming 128k variable bitrate. Assuming 4x encoding rate and a USB connection to the player I reckon you're looking at about 15 minutes per CD to encode and download, which means just over a week of solid work to fill it up. If we're talking about a real person then they're not likely to do more than a couple of hours of this per day, so in real life does that mean that the player wouldn't get full before a larger hard disk came out?

Sorry, just me in that Friday afternoon mood with a calculator handy. :)

Cheers,

Mark.

It's not like IBM to flog vapour-ware is it?

Mind you - speaking of vapour-ware ... ;-))


- Andy

Check out Fujitsu for the technical details.


- Andy