Review on Toshiba Gigabeat MEG-F40S Digital Audio Player - 40GB (Silver): Enhanced SEO-friendly Version by Vince Dickey

So I bought it in 2006. Used quite intensively for 3-4 years. I popped out of storage while cleaning the other day and found that the battery life is terrible now. But it still works. As far as I can remember, the firmware and software on this device was complete rubbish. It had very clumsy, dumb software that had to be used to transfer music to the device. It took forever and it froze hard. It seemed to convert the mp3 into a proprietary file format (that's the only explanation for why it was such a long and delicate process to load simple music files in). It was rubbish. So I downloaded something from the RockBox website that easily replaces the old firmware in the device. Once I did that, my computer interacted with it like a regular old external hard drive. To put music on it, all I had to do was drag and drop MP3 files. No conversion, no nonsense. That made it a hundred times better than the piece of junk it was out of the box. I miss how much space that thing had. It was 40 gigs. When I replaced it, I replaced it with an iPod Touch, which appears to have been around 8 gigabytes. And the iPod Touch was later replaced by the smartphone, which is only about 12-16 gigabytes. Now when you look at external hard drives and flash drives, storage space seems cheaper than ever. but for some inexplicable reason this old mp3 player i bought 8 years ago had more than any mp3 player and smartphone i have bought since. I kind of appreciate Toshiba for not skimping on storage space.