External HDD

[Guest The_Undertaker]

Hi,

I'm new to the MDA III but am liking it so far. I was going to buy a 2GB SD card to put into it to watch movies on the go (plus a little bit of music) when I had another idea, would it be possible to buy a portable hard drive and plug that into it and stream movies off of the HDD as an additional media source?

I'm not sure if this possible or if there is such an adaptor available to allow me to do such a thing. I just thought £150 for a 2GB SD card would probably cost me the same amount for a 40GB portable HDD with lots more space.

Also, a quick link to a Tom Tom device that will just plug and play would be ace too.

Thanks in advance :D

The Undertaker

[Guest fraser]

I'm not sure if this possible or if there is such an adaptor available to allow me to do such a thing. I just thought £150 for a 2GB SD card would probably cost me the same amount for a 40GB portable HDD with lots more space.

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I doubt it would be possible without someone making something specifically to do this. I remember reading that the USB port on these devices is a slave port, like most cameras, hard drives etc. You need a master on the line somewhere, which is normally your PC.

By the way, you can get 1 GB SD-RAM cards on ebay from the USA for about £30 each. Just get a load of them; you could get 5GB for the price of your 2GB card. :D

If someone were to make an SD-IO HD, we'd be laughing. A bluetooth one would also be neat, but I don't think bluetooth is up to the task. WiFi definately is up to it, but I'm not sure if there are any extenral WiFi devices that act as a filestore yet. The battery demands would make it hard to do well.

I've just hooked someone up with a Sony Vaio mp3 player (iPods...spit, DRM garbage!!) that can also be used to copy images off a camera. This device is theoretically able to do what you want, but I doubt the drivers allow it.

[Guest The_Undertaker]

I doubt it would be possible without someone making something specifically to do this.

I've just hooked someone up with a Sony Vaio mp3 player (iPods...spit, DRM garbage!!) that can also be used to copy images off a camera. This device is theoretically able to do what you want, but I doubt the drivers allow it.

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Thanks for the reply. Do you think anyone has managed to fudge a portable HDD to work with their MDA III kinda like you mention?

The one nice thing about having one large SD card is that you can just have loads of stuff on one card and not have to worry about carrying around lots of cards / swapping them around :?:

[Guest fraser]

Thanks for the reply. Do you think anyone has managed to fudge a portable HDD to work with their MDA III kinda like you mention?

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I don't know of anything like it, but I'm new to the PocketPC world. It sounds like a useful capability (I'd kill for a Bluetooth HD!), so I doubt you'd be the first to try it!

In fact, I'm so new, I'm still waiting for Orange to GIVE ME MY PHONE!! :D

[Guest Wozbacca]

i've ofter thought how genius it would be if it had a (master) usb port on the side so you could plug in usb keys and stuff like that.

i doubt bluetooth is reliable enough to sustain a stream, it bairly holds up a phone call to my m3000 headset from the e200,

maybe thats just because my e200 is crap