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May 10 2005
Share Steno CD311 Portable HD Review
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| Summary: It works great for what it is
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My first impression of opening up the box was that it is a pretty neat and organized package. The unit itself was a bit bigger than I thought, but more portable than my laptop.
• The unit itself
• AC plug
• A 14-in-1 memory card reader - SM, CD/MMC, CF, Memory Stick and more
• USB cable x 2
• USB adapter
• A nifty carrying case
• Instruction manuals
I plugged it in and connected directly via USB cable to my desktop (running XP), it immediatly recognized it as a Mass Storage Device. By default, it is formated into 2 seperate partitions, 20 gb's each. I put all my mp4's into the first partition, and the other my mp3's.
Then I connected my PSP to the female USB to mini adapter. Upon activating the USB mode on the PSP, it was immediatly recognized. Once turned on, I went to the browse button, and clicked "ok" from the Steno. I could either click hard disk, or the USB device (PSP). Browsing is pretty simple -- left on the direction pad goes back a folder, right goes into the folder, down goes down the list, and up goes up. Once I get to the file I want, I click the menu button, and 4 icons show up, (copy, delete, create, and size). I hit ok on copy and then the Steno reads "calculating... " and goes to disk01 (the PSP). Pressing right, it goes into the 'mp_root' folder. On the folder 100mnv01 (movie folder) I clicked ok, I pressed the menu button, and pressed ok on the check mark. Then it transferred the movies to the PSP. The speed is comparable to the PSP being connected to the PC. It's as simple as that!
The battery life is about 6 GB worth of transfer (which I personally think is enough for a day or two.) The only thing I dont like though, is that it does not display the full filename. For instance, I made a folder for music videos, and it shows up as "musicv~1." So it will be confusing depending on what files you have. But other than that it's great. One cool tip when using PSPVideo 9 is that you could make the settings point to the Share Steno, and have the program transfer all the movies to the hard drive automatically. As an added bonus, the 14-in-1 memory card reader can read PRO Duo cards, so you could just use that to put movies on while playing your PSP.
It works great for what it is, a portable hard drive that you can store you movies and audio on. You could also use the built-in card reader if you had other types of memory cards.
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Good Info:
Dear Customer,
I'm very sorry for giving you wrong information.
After checked, we found that CD311/211 is compatible with Sony PSP.
Best regards
Apacer Technical Support
2005/5/11
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hmm, sounds suspect if you ask me lol. anyways, you posted that "wrong info by the apacer techy" on the other review for this.
also, does anyone know if they plan to improve this product with the ability to stream things from it or other cool features?
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its not possible cause the psp wont allow it..the psp doesnt have a built in file manager
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I have the cd211. It works fine. I have a bunch of movies saved on the hard drive and just copy the one I want to watch to the PSP's memory stick. Only takes a couple of minutes.
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Is there a way to connect the CD311 to an iPod to store additional MP3s?
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yep.. you can connect it uo to an ipod
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Hello! I would like if i can buy that apacer Cd311 with 80GB pack. Thks!
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Can I help me!Is exists that pack?
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