What's the difference between the high and low storage mp3 players

[Syringer]

For instance..

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1470578&enterthread=y

vs.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1518360&enterthread=y

Besides the obvious difference of course..but why are they nearly the same in price when one can store a whole lot more data than the other?

 

[imported_Mike]

IIRC the muvo is the size of a usb thumb drive and is flash based.

 

[xSauronx]

main difference is storage. small ones (1 gig and under ususally) ar eflash based, most everything else is a hard drive of some kind; which also makes them larger (though the ones with microdrives can be pretty small)