Creative Zen 4 GB only $89.99 USD from Amazon.com

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://astore.amazon.com/digitalmediathoughts-20/detail/B000UV4EU6/105-4193955-2995625' target='_blank'>http://astore.amazon.com/digitalmed...4193955-2995625</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/dht/auto/1202252288.usr1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Yup, you read that right - Creative's 4 GB Zen model is <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/digitalmediathoughts-20/detail/B000UV4EU6/105-4193955-2995625" target="_blank">only $89.99</a> at the moment. That's quite a good deal when you consider that the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/zunethoughts-20/detail/B000WG6YF2/105-4193955-2995625" target="_blank">4 GB Zune is $135</a> and you can easily expand the Creative Zen with an <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/digitalmediathoughts-20/detail/B000P9ZBFA/105-4193955-2995625">8 GB SD card for $35</a>. That would give you a player with broader codec support (it plays Divx), triple the storage (4 GB vs. 12 GB), and it's still a few bucks cheaper than the Zune. This is one heck of a deal! [Affiliate]

[Chris Gohlke]

Looks sweet, might grab one. It says it has a usb hard drive function. Anyone know if you can actually load music that way or is it just for other data?

[Jason Dunn]

Anyone know if you can actually load music that way or is it just for other data?

If it's like the previous gen Zen Vision:M I have, it's just for loading other data - it's like a mass storage partition.

[Phillip Dyson]

If it's like the previous gen Zen Vision:M I have, it's just for loading other data - it's like a mass storage partition.

Maybe I'm not understanding what you two are discussing, but I had a Zen:M and am pretty sure that I was able to copy my music to the device and allow it to build its indexing database. I only later started using WMP11.