Does the CLip Sport have a spinning hard drive, or does it use flash/solid state?
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I haven't seen a comercial disk hard drive in a such small storage device... so I assumed that it must be solid state tech
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I'm afraid your mistaken this tablet does not have a mechanical Hard Drive, it uses Flash Memory.In fact no currently produced Android or Apple tablet has a mechanical Hard Drive.
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One end is USB the other fits into the play sport video camera. Worked perfectly for us
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MPG, MP4, AVI and WMVIt is really plug and play. You have to use the V button on the remote then scroll over to Multimedia, click and you will see the Flash Drive. After clicking on it you have to answer the question Photos, videos or music and you can then go to the drive and move through folders if any. I have some 40 year old Super 8 video's that I converted to MPG's 25 years ago and they play although the quality is not that great but most everything else looks great. I have the 55" model.
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In youtube there is such a video. A dude connects a flash drive into this and jumps to further velocities compared to 7200 rpm seagate backup plus
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You do not need a rom drive. The Clip Zip attaches via a USB cable. Usually just drag-and-drop files to thee MP3 player.
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It is plug and play in Windows based systems. Treated like a hard drive. It is USB 2.0 so speed is good; handling videos is a function of space and speed so if the video is less than 4 GB it/they should fit
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This person was confused. You're right... SSDs cannot have a mesaurement of RPM since they don't spin. Furthermore, the ASUS EB1007P-B0040 comes with a conventional HDD and not an SSD, so unless they upgraded the drive to be an SSD, it should be a conventional 320GB HDD.
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It's exactly like a portable hard drive. The difference is,it's solid state and has no moving parts.
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If you open the case (which I had to fix the drive after it had jammed and would not be recognized), you can see that the internal drive is a Samsung ST1000LM024. I Googled this and found the following description on another site: SAMSUNG Spinpoint M8 ST1000LM024 1TB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive Bare Drive
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It's flash memory, not a hard drive. Flash is far more expensive for compact sizes. I would do a few searches on "NAND Flash" and "High Capacity Flash" and you will see that the price makes sense for the low amount of space.
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Not to my knowledge. My desktop is less than a year old, so I would assume it's rocking 3.0. The hard drive itself only came with one USB cable and I don't see a spot for another. When I first got it, I moved all of my media to it - about 90GB of stuff, and it was pretty quick. The Transcend website seems to support my assumption, Google it for details. Hope that helps :)
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I didn't purchase the 250. But the description says 7200 RPM, so that wouldn't be a solid state drive as they don't rotate.
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I haven't had any problems with podcast and audiobook files, many audiobooks, especially ones from libraries have several files that are numbered. I don't have any music on the Clip Sport. There is an update for the firmware, if you buy this player make sure you update, from what I understand they took care of glitches with song orders, etc. The only thing I don't like about this player is that it won't play wma files that have drm protection. Not sure it'll post but here is the address for instruction and the file for the Sport update: http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Sansa-Clip-Zip/Sansa-Clip-Zip-Firmware-01-01-20/td-p/270703
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Nothing. Someone answered that it may be USB 2.0, but I assure you the silver model is also USB 3.0. The older version of this device was 2.0, but they are exactly the same.. just this one is a cooler color! Also as far as it goes, this is the sturdiest thumb drive I've ever owned! It just requires you to keep it capped when not in use.
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You don't need a USB 3.0 flash drive, you should be able to use a USB 2.0 flash drive and the speed should be fast enough to watch all movies directly off the flash drive. USB 2.0 is capable of 280 Mbit/sec (35 Mbyte/sec). Most HD movies don't exceed that bitrate, and standard definition video is significantly lower than that. Remember: USB 3.0 media will only work with other USB 3.0 devices, but USB 2.0 media will work with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices.
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The internal memory in the playsport is very small. You might have a few pictures on there if you used the device before purchasing a memory card for it. It would only be able to hold a few seconds of video. If you're experiencing this issue, then the internal memory is probably already corrupted and you won't be able to recover anything from it anyway. There isn't any critical piece of software stored on the internal memory (at the least the part that you have access to).