Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 29th Nov 2005 19:41 UTC
Multimedia, AV Geeks.com sent us for a review an external hard drive enclosure case, the "TVisto Series 3.5" Multimedia HDD Enclosure" (2.5" series also available). But this is not just another hard drive enclosure, but also a multimedia jukebox. And it's running uCLinux, an embedded version of Linux.
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Eugenia
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2005-06-28

My guess is that because the 2.5" is physically much smaller, they had to use less memory and maybe even less video-related electronics. For example, if the firmware of the 3.5" runs on 4 MBs with two chips of 2 MBs each, they had to run on a single chip of 2 MBs on the 2.5" version. And that would mean only one thing: removal of drivers and code in order to fit on the 2 MBs ROM.

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