Anyone else up for this? It's something I'm really interested in doing, and figured the help of the community would be a great boon. 100GB of hard disk memory will store ~333 albums in lossless format, which will cover almost anyone's record collection. It's also the next barrier to break in terms of H140 mods, given the amount of 60GB and 80GB mods done and not a single 100GB mod that I know of.
So, the idea is to take a stock H140 and install a 100GB Toshiba MK1011GAH. The main hurdle here is overcoming the ATA H140 and ZIF HDD connection barrier, while still being able to fit the hard drive in the case. There's two sources I've seen that look promising. One is the PDF file linked around this site that shows how to build a connector. The PDF is in German, so someone needs to translate that, and the information looks somewhat sparse, so someone else will need to fill in the gaps. Also, coming up with a solution to avoid soldering directly to the mainboard would be great, given the relative difficulty and expense of procuring H140s. It would be much preferable to come up with a cheap and self-contained adapter and leave the hard drive and player intact.
The second idea revolves around a Japanese site selling adapters that might work. Personally, I can't tell which, if any, of these would work, so the opinion of someone a bit more technically minded would be a great help. From what I've heard (and correct me if I'm wrong), ATA uses 5V as opposed to ZIF's 3.3V, and the pin out is different, which makes me doubt the Japanese connectors a little. But a second opinion would be great.
Any help or cooperation on this project would be great. I'm going to try to check back here as often as possible, but I'm pretty busy with school (studying architecture at a major university) so I'm not always able to check my computer. Plus, I don't own an H140 yet, but I'm looking around pretty intensively for one. As soon as a good idea is down on paper here I'm willing to tear it open and start modding.
MK1011GAH:
http://store.memorylabs.net/to10mk428mbz.html
ZIF-IDE mod:
http://www.stolltech.ch/iriver.pdf
Japanese connectors:
http://www.ddknet.co.jp/English/prod...d_d/index.html