How is about Hard drive-based players?
Though many of the portable digital music players still use flash memory, more and more manufacturers are releasing portable players with hard drives. The advantage of a hard drive is the massive storage it offers for MP3 files, as well as photos, videos and personal data. A player with 64MB of flash memory offers about an hour’s worth of tunes, while a player with a hard disk drive can hold hundreds of hours of music. The Archos Jukebox Recorder 20, Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox 3 and Apple iPod all boast huge 20.0GB hard drives plenty of space for long-term storage. Plus, hard drive-based players feature high-speed transfer through FireWire and USB 2.0 connectivity for moving big files easily.