Its a cool and fast drive except that the usb port failed after 5-6 months, when I open it up, guess what, they secured the port with only a piece of tin... surprise if it deosn't break off after like 100 plug and unplugs. I had it fixed but after a few months it went wrong again, archos makes some nice looking toys but they are not for your work.

I have had this drive for some time now. I highly recommend it. It's awesome and it's fast.

They messed up on my order and will not accept the blame for it! They will not do anything to rectify the situation, except refund my money after several weeeks. I was put on hold for ever! Asked to speak to manager and they do not seem to really care.
Never by from TIGER DIRECT, bad customer service!

This was an absolutely wonderful device, but only for the 8-9 months when it actually worked. Once it failed, it was impossible to get any response from the manufacturer, despite 12 month warranty. Too expensive for a nine-month rental hard drive.

I was in the market for a portable drive when I found this beauty. In addition to a solid, rugged build, it's also quite simple to use, not too hard to look at (can you say techno fetish?), and fast enough. Perhaps it lacks the performance and space of a 160gb external that's the size of a dictionary, but for me, the portability means utility. I can use it more if I can lug it around effortlessly.

I also looked at creating a portable using a 2.5" laptop harddrive with a pre-made enclosure, but decided that you didn't really save that much more by making your own. And those were still about twice the size of this drive, which is based on the 1.8" Toshiba drives that are used by the Ipod.

One improvement I could see Archos offering (other than a larger size) is firewire connectivity. But if that increased the size of the drive, then I'd opt to stay with USB.