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Iomega launches gaming console HDDDVDBack23 @ Apr 17, 2008 19:37 | 33 comments Iomega has announced its all-new Media Xporter drive, a game console-oriented 2.5-inch portable hard drive that will provide storage for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
The company says the new drive will make it "easier than ever to use game consoles and high definition televisions and other large screen TVs to share photos, videos, and music collections with family and friends."
The very portable, wallet-sized drive is USB powered and will use the USB 2.0 ports on either console to offer a plug-and-play solution alongside 160GB of media storage.
According to the press release the drive is "designed for use the Xbox 360 and PS3, the Media Xporter is also compatible with Apple computers and Microsoft Windows and is bundled with software to convert media to console-friendly formats, where necessary."
The drive is available now and retails for $120 USD and in Europe for 99 euros.
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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 18, 2008 02:28) Interesting how dose this deal with the 360s locking out of USB HDDs? remember the USB HDD on the 360 is set to read ONLY...
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Comment by: gallagher (Apr 18, 2008 08:08) How are they set to read only when they can send info back thru the USB's? They do through the controllers (take vibration) and they do through the network adapter which is USB. |
Comment by: DXR88 (Apr 18, 2008 11:53) Originally posted by gallagher: Limited Access, Only Certain files can be transferd anything off live cannot be moved. save files cannot be moved, music is moveable Wallpaper and Avatars are moveable, less there from live.Video's Can be moved less there from live.
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Comment by: rainofire (Apr 18, 2008 12:40) Why buy this, I rather get a 2.5" SATA 320gb for a better price to put into my ps3, and get my 2x 500gb external HDD and plug them into my usb ports on my ps3. And there you go 1.3tb of storage space. Good for all the videos I download, 1.3tb should last me 2 weeks before I need to get me another 500gb HDD. |
Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 18, 2008 12:58) its 113 now,its not to bad bu the trouble is it dosent say if its locked out from moving stuff around on the 360.... |
Comment by: DXR88 (Apr 18, 2008 14:44) Originally posted by rainofire:
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Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 18, 2008 14:48) heres something better for the 360.
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Comment by: algtz1 (Apr 18, 2008 16:37) I have a 500 GB Seagate USB HDD and formatted it using MACdrive 7. Now I can bypass FAT 32's file limit of 4GB. Do you hear me? Now I can transfer my 8+ GB HDWMV movies and play them through my Xbox360. Dude I feel like a king in my own living room. I may save up to buy a PS3 this summer, though, because I heard they support more formats. I am getting tired of converting my entire library to WMV format or Avi format. |
Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 18, 2008 17:05) Originally posted by algtz1:
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Comment by: emugamer (Apr 18, 2008 18:51) Originally posted by algtz1: Good deal man. I hate that the PS3 can only read FAT32. I would love to see some NTFS support, or even ext3. The 4GB limit sux. The PS3 still doesn't support mkv, and most videos have to go through some sort of conversion process to get it into the .MP4, or .vob or .ts format that can be streamed. So if your 360 is fulfilling all of your media needs now, it's probably the way to go instead of dropping half a grand on a new system. Unless there are PS3 exclusives that you are really wanting to play :-) |
Comment by: emugamer (Apr 18, 2008 18:58) Quote:Originally posted by rainofire: It wouldn't be completly pointless. You can just format everything to FAT32. I formatted a 160GB partition on an external drive. Other people have said they've formatted larger external drives to FAT32. You would just have to make sure all files are split so that you don't have anything over 4GB. Thatis a royal pain. I've actually tried formatting an external drive to ext3 and ext2 and the PS3 USB ports did not pick it up. I formatted the same drive to FAT32 and it worked great. The best bet would be a large internal drive upgrade. Then you can transfer larger files through Tversity and play them locally. But there is still a conversion process that you have to go through. |
Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 18, 2008 20:33) Quote:Quote:Originally posted by rainofire: the 360 has a 32GB partition limit so I have read, whats the "limit" on the PS3? |
Comment by: emugamer (Apr 18, 2008 21:28) Quote:Quote:Quote:Originally posted by rainofire: I didn't think there was a limit. I believe I've read that people are using 500GB FAT32 drives. PS3hax.net is down now due to server switching, but once it's back up, I'll post a link to the thread. After formatting a 160GB external partition myself to FAT32, I don't see how there could be a limit. I found a handy little Windows utility that will format any size drive to FAT32. Worked great for me. |
Comment by: ZippyDSM (Apr 18, 2008 21:46) Quote:Quote:Quote:Quote:Originally posted by rainofire: thought maybe unix had an odd limit to HDD size, but anyway you look at it its more friendly than the 360 mess. |
Comment by: rainofire (Apr 19, 2008 02:24) I don't recall a partition limit for the ps3, but I think you have to have at least 10% of the HDD for the XMB. |
Comment by: mtntop1 (Apr 19, 2008 13:50) I don't but Iomega products,not after the crappie zip drive they made that went bad and developed the CLICK OF DEATH.After inserting a disk the drive just made a clicking noise and do nothing else.A lot of consumers got ripped off on that one.A class action lawsuit was filed and the out come was that Iomega would give owners a coupon worth $50.00 towards the purchase of another Iomega product.BUYER'S BEWARE! |
Comment by: Snipes_ (Apr 19, 2008 15:36) Just picked up PS3 for $10bucks(used points). Attached my WD160GB passport and no prob's (paid $80.00 on sale at costco)Set up the folders, copied the files. Dowloaded trailers and copied them to the WD...no problems. I would stay away from iomega...I had a tape (yes tape) drive a while ago...it sucked.
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Comment by: algtz1 (Apr 19, 2008 20:29) Just format the external usb HDD with a program called macdrvie 7.0. Its way better than Fat 32. There is no size limit on files. So you can save files bigger than 4GB. I have Converted some of my Concert DVDS which are 6GB+ to WMV and they play fine. I tried doing the steaming thing but was too frustrated because of all the stuttering during playback. External HDD are definately the way to go. |
Comment by: emugamer (Apr 19, 2008 20:52) Originally posted by algtz1: Thanks man. I will try it. Getting the program now. So I'm assuming that Macdrive formats to ext2 or ext3. I've tried to do that in the past and it didn't work, but I probably did it wrong or used the wrong program for it. I hope this works out! Heck, I'll throw in a 750GB HDD and put all of my 1080P movies on it. Now I'll just have to convert to to mP4 or something and not worry about splitting the files. |
Comment by: varnull (Apr 19, 2008 21:14) From the FAT32 specifications..
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Comment by: algtz1 (Apr 21, 2008 16:55) emugamer,
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Comment by: emugamer (Apr 21, 2008 17:31) @algtz1
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Comment by: algtz1 (Apr 21, 2008 21:23) Can you shed some light on the popcorn player. I heard rumors of it but haven't heard much else. |
Comment by: emugamer (Apr 21, 2008 22:30) Originally posted by algtz1: Sure, I'll PM you. Don't want to bring this post too much more off topic :P |
Comment by: DXR88 (Apr 21, 2008 22:47) Originally posted by varnull:
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