H140 using 80gb 3.5" drive

the_winch · #1 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 01:36 PM

Soldered the connector from an old compact flash card to an ide lead and connected to a 80gb 3.5" drive.
Good news for anyone thinking about getting hold of a larger 1.8" drive and installing it as it should work.

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eggman90 · #2 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 01:50 PM

lmfao

very nice but ur gonna have trouble carrying that thing around lol. but its pretty cool. connect some speakers to taht and u got a mini stereo right there.

Astec · #3 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 01:57 PM

This is good news for modders all over here. How did you get the drive to be recognised. And is it over 32GB in size, or did you partition it?

**DreamTactix291** · #4 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:00 PM

It looks like it's one partition. It says 74151MB free.

Thank for answering the question everyone has been wondering about

**NPswimdude500** · #5 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:04 PM

hm...but theres still the 9999 file limit

**DreamTactix291** · #6 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:05 PM

Yeah, most likely since that is firmware based. We'd have to have a firmware fix for that coughRockboxcough.

Astec · #7 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:13 PM

Well for the latest group of users aka H300 users and PMP owners the 9999 file limit is no problem as we would more likely use it for the video files. The limit I hope is removed for sake of the h100 owners of the world.

Tux · #8 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:42 PM

THANKYOU!

I was thinking of doing something similar to test if it could handle a larger drive.
Now that you've confirmed it, I am gonna replace my H140's drive with the 60Gb one when I fill it up.

Cheers

Haku · #9 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:48 PM

Sweet! now when are we going to be able to buy a 1.8" 60gb drive? flippin' Apple hogging the first shipments for their bars of soap...

I'd either sell the 1.8" 40gb to help ease the cost of the 60gb, or put it in a USB enclosure as a portable HD.

Astec · #10 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 02:53 PM

Hmmmm selling 40Gb drives great idea, I suppose there would be a market for 40Gb drives to be sold on here to the users of 20Gb drives looking for a fix of more space. As for their drives it may be a bit harder to shift them. I think I will be looking into the 80Gb drive for my player. I would love a 120Gb drive so I would match my players capacity with that of my computer.

**Odie** · #11 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Astec123

I suppose there would be a market for 40Gb drives to be sold on here to the users of 20Gb drives looking for a fix of more space.

Unfortunately for them, the 40gb drives probably wouldn't fit in the iHP-120 casing, iHP-120 user's best bet would probably be the new 30Gb Toshiba drives.

- Odie

Astec · #12 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 03:13 PM

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Unfortunately for them, the 40gb drives probably wouldn't fit in the iHP-120 casing, iHP-120 user's best bet would probably be the new 30Gb Toshiba drives.

I was talking in general. Just had a spark of an idea. Will do some research and report back.

**NPswimdude500** · #13 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Odie

Unfortunately for them, the 40gb drives probably wouldn't fit in the iHP-120 casing, iHP-120 user's best bet would probably be the new 30Gb Toshiba drives.

- Odie

you just wait until 60 gig drives are single platter....the 40 gig drives are now..

Haku · #14 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2005, 09:19 PM

With the 9999 file limit I thought of a way round it, sort of, two harddrives in a custom build/modified case with a switch so you can select which you want to use, only using the switch when it's powered off of course.
Sure it'll be a fat player but not too bad if you used 2x 1.8" 60gb drives, up to 120gb of music in up to 20000 tracks

I've been thinking a lot about cases recently, not for my H140 but for a new PC, I recently discovered http://www.mini-itx.com which has some very cool homebrew computer, uh cases

What with building a projector I'm going to need a PC to run it, a modest 2.8ghz system but using the case of the PC I'm now using to type this - so I'll need a replacement for my email/usenet/web stuff and a miniature fanless 600mhz PC seems ideal (this one I'm using is only 900mhz). I've got an old Amiga CD32 which has no PSU and don't know if it works, it's an ideal size for a mini-PC with HD and DVD-Rom.

Tang · #15 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 07:45 AM

Hello, thanks The Winch for this announcement! Very helpful for those like me that have good hope to upgrade the HD with a bigger 1.8'' (40Gig for my iHP120)...

muesli · #16 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 12:09 PM

very kewl to know indeed! hope, the_winch will give us some more facts

Tang · #17 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by muesli

very kewl to know indeed! hope, the_winch will give us some more facts

Hi muesli i gave you the french link for the single platter 40Gig HD announced by toshiba

the_winch · #18 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 01:54 PM

I think the big problem will be getting hold of new drives. I think they are oem only so will be difficult to find. The easiest way to get one might be from another device. I guess for that reason you will have no trouble selling the old drive.

The drive is just a normal 80gb 3.5" Maxtor drive with one big fat32 partition formatted with win98. Unfortunatly the players format option won't format the drive

muesli · #19 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 02:13 PM

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I think they are oem only so will be difficult to find. The easiest way to get one might be from another device

yeah, totally agree. its even impossible to get the 30gb drives. we should check out toshibas 30gb customers...

Haku · #20 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by the_winch

I think the big problem will be getting hold of new drives. I think they are oem only so will be difficult to find. The easiest way to get one might be from another device. I guess for that reason you will have no trouble selling the old drive.

I don't fancy buying a 60gb iPod just for the drive and then selling it as a 40gb iPod

Really hope there's an easier way of getting a 60gb 1.8".

Shadow Skill · #21 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2005, 11:00 PM

Probably not Haku drives like that are usally horded by companies you would have to ask the manufacturer directly most likely.

stripwax · #22 (**permalink**) January 31st, 2005, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Shadow Skill

Probably not Haku drives like that are usally horded by companies you would have to ask the manufacturer directly most likely.

Toshiba offer for direct sale (through their website!) the 20GB and 40GB drives, but not the 30GB or 60GB drives, and they are not even advertising their single-platter 40GB/ dual-platter 80GB drives.. so as a previous post suggested, don't even consider trying to source these parts unless you're looking to buy > 5,000 of them...