Have been waiting for a small media player, with a decent amount of space for your legitimate downloads? Archos has announced a brand spanking upgrade for the 405, which gives it a much nicer 30GB of space. It is going to set you back a measly $US293, but unfortunately uses a HDD instead of flash. The 605, with all its web browsing goodness, is still the better deal.

For more info, click over to Engadget.

Seagate have released their new notebook drive, but did you notice something? It doesn’t have a larger then normal amount of flash memory. There are currently hybrid drives by companies such as Samsung, but reviews have shown that the increase is negilable.  Why pay more for nothing?
Seagate have the same idea in their head. The Inquirer had a chance to talk to Joni Clark, a senior product marketer at Seagate who believed that hybrid drives are a little way off and flash disk drives don’t offer the performance that was originally expected.
What is Seagate’s solution to this problem? Joni believes its in their upcoming model which “is fast and will blow anything that’s out there today out of the water.” Lets hope that this ground breaking technology will also be affordable. 

For more info, spin over to The Inquirer.

I’m a huge fan of the JVC HDD based camcorders, and I have recently got one for myself (to film my little baby crying, because that is all she does). The people over at Digital Trends have done a great review on the new JVC Everio GZ-HD3. They have said “you’ll love the five hours of storage, nice ergonomics and pretty HD video”, giving the camera a good 7.5/10. Can’t wait for these things to get 100GB HDD’s up.

For the whole review, click over to the Digital Trends Website.