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please do not spend 200 on an 80gb hdd.

any of these should work...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...889&name=ATA-6

keep in mind, it may not be as easy as cloning the drive from the old one to the new one. theres a good chance that it is set up to only recognize 6gb for music server. i'm interested to see how this develops and great job to the people that figured this out.

 

Now is the time. :P

I didn't find out about the patches until yesterday. However, now you don't even need to unlock it to patch for rolling video. Just get the update CD (I'm not sure if it works, I don't have MMCS).

 

Until the temperature drops and your hard drive turns into a brick.

These are automotive grade which means they can survive in the elements of extreme heat to brutally cold.

 

yes, well being that the site linked before doesn't have any hdd specs, i fail to justify paying $200 for an 80GB hard drive just because its "automotive grade"

 

$200 IMHO is well worth my Mitsubishi Evo X MMCS Harddrive lasting through the extreme Chicago temperatures. I have seen what happens to my iPod after a cold night here, let alone freezing temps.

The fact that "the site linked before" does not have any information on the product is irrelevant to the fact that the MMCS has an Automotive Grade Harddrive for a reason. It is your prerogative to by a standard harddrive to use in your car but don't preach to people to do the same when it is a known risk. Provide information and people will make up their own minds. Did I say click here and buy it, I did not.

Here is a link to Seagates website.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...eqTab=Features

Here is the best deal I located on the web.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...mp&dcaid=15890

Back on topic. Has anyone successfully cloned a drive which functions normally in the MMCS?

 

I agree.... I think almost everybody wants to upgrade the MP3 capacity of this Unit.

Has anyone upgraded to a larger HDD yet? And if so, Is their music storage partition now larger?

cheers

 

Yeah, has anyone tried this yet? And did you wreck anything while doing it? I'm interested, but am wary of ripping apart a brand new car.

 

Being able to install a larger harddrive is all well and good, but I don't see the true benefit of it until we get a more efficient way of getting music onto the drive first. The only method I've heard of so far is to have the MMCS rip audio CDs, which really isn't very interesting IMO. Can it not even read MP3s off a data CD and store them in the archive? Optimal solution would be to get some sort of USB connection to the HDD!

Thanks!

 

If I'm understanding this correctly. you can burn the image of the hard drive to a larger hard drive and have the bigger capacity ? If that's the case, and if I read the original instructions correctly, you should be able to throw the hard drive into any IDE compatible computer and look at the file system? If thats the case, you should be able to just load your entire mp3 collection onto this hard drive and then stick it back into the navigation unit. Then you'd have all of your music and you wouldn't ahve to transfer it from CDs

 

that would be nice.

Eddie

 

Agreed. Still, say I buy an album online (digital), I would still have to burn it to a disc and have the MMCS rip it. And if I made a personal playlist on my computer and burned it on a CD, the MMCS would not recognize track names etc. Not optimal at all IMO. I mean, I barely take my iPod out of my current car to load new tracks onto it. Being realistic I quickly realize that IŽll never go through the hassle of taking the drive out and hooking it up to my computer. At least not more than once...
Agree?

 

Oh I definitely agree, and I believe Mitsubishi should put a firmware upgrade out to allow it to rip MP3s...

My point was that INITIALLY it would be much easier to put all your songs with the drive out. Even if you're just putting the maximum 1500 songs on it, you'd still have to rip about 125-150 CDs.

If you're like me, and you have 50GB of mp3's (3/4 of which I never listen to anyway), initially it would be in your best interest to do it in a computer where the transfer rates would be much better and you wouldn't waste all those coasters!

But I can definitely see the whole new music thing as being an issue. Mitsubishi dropped the usability ball, but overall it seems like a great system.

 

Yup yup I completely agree. Its a good idea to fill it up to start with.
Hopefully the functionality of this unit will be improved in the future through hacks or firmware updates.

 

If and when you burn a cd of random or a downloaded album if you turn on burning of CDTEXT it will import the proper names into the unit.
I've done a half dozen or so cd's this way.
Jim