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Siar:
Aaaaa... A-Data 32Gb Newegg price - 131$ ;D

scharkalvin:

--- Quote ---Aaaaa... A-Data 32Gb Newegg price - 131$
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The price is rapidly converging on my impulse buying point.
It's almost as low as the price I paid on my first 16gb flash card
less than 6 months ago.  If it keeps dropping at this rate I will probably
buy one in a month.  BUT, it also means that the 64GB version can't
be far away!!!!

If you don't want to mess with adapters and don't mind the price here are some other
options:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2013240636+1421330853&name=1.8%22

LambdaCalculus:
It's getting to the point that I'm just thinking of getting a cheap Gigabeat F on eBay and getting an adapter. Gigabeat F64? Hell yeah!  ;)

scharkalvin:

--- Quote ---It's getting to the point that I'm just thinking of getting a cheap Gigabeat F
on eBay and getting an adapter. Gigabeat F64? Hell yeah!  Wink
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Technically it would be an F60 due to the base conversion round off.....

I just checked and there aren't any 64gb CF cards available yet, maybe
in a few months.  BUT I think I will upgrade my gigabeat 16 CF conversion
to 32GB real soon now.  Maybe the 32GB card will work better than the
16GB (some issues with read errors on boot up and not disconnecting from
the USB disk mode when I unmount and remove the cable.... I have
to toggle the battery switch).  BUT seems solid once the unit is up and running
with music loaded.

larry_llama:
Hey guys,

I started researching CF conversions on a whim, because card sizes started climbing recently, and I remembered somewhere in my brain hearing that CF cards use essentially an IDE interface. I have had an H120 and more recently an H320 running rockbox for many years, however I am always very scared about even putting it on a table too hard because it seems like the older a hard drive gets the more likely it is to fail miserably upon a slight impact. So at first I considered putting a CF in the H320, but I have to say that I find the interface of the 320 kind of lacking. Rockbox seems to be very slow and unresponsive on it. Particularly when skipping tracks, it seems to take forever to respond. It's also really large by today's standard so I thought downgrading in size might be kind of neat :-)

So then I discovered that you could mod an ipod mini -- normally I am 100% dead set against ipods, but with rockbox, flash memory, and all metal body, I think an ipod mini with 32GB CF is a great idea.

Now I have just read about the gigabeat and I am interested in this idea as well.

My question is for anyone who has used any or all of these (iriver, toshiba,. mini) with rockbox... which ones have the fastest UI response? Will the mini respond to button presses faster than the iriver? Will switching from HDD to CF speed these up due to the elimination of drive spinup etc?

I guess I'm looking for guidance in regards to an upgrade... I think I could sell the 320 and get enough out of it to get a 32G CF card and a used (possibly broken) ipod mini. The gigabeat seems harder to find.

Any opinions about doing a CF upgrade to a mini versus a gigabeat?

Thanks!

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