Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
AoMoe @ Jul 23rd 2007 6:48PM sez:
It is funny to read that many people believe that this is the death keel for SonicStage and ATRAC. Sony has decided to dump SonicStage and ATRAC to release a products that
- has less battery life than current Sony products
- has less memory that some Sony's current products
- does not allow you to manage your music across multiple media.
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1) Sony have always quoted battery life using some ridiculously small 64kbit atrac files, if I'm not mistaken. Real-world = far lower
2) the market buying this doesn't need more memory; not all of us need to put our whole collections on a player
3) it allows you to manage your music across multiple media fine; it's Mass-Storage compliant which is far more open than having to install SonicStage on machines, I reckon. Besides, with a max of 2GB, what's to manage?