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What is the "Flagship" player for Rockbox?

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soap:
That is a 2.5" HDD, outside the old Archos players, all Rockbox targets (and most all HDD based DAPs) use 1.8" HDDs.  (Well, except those targets using 1" microdrives or flash memory.)

That drive you linked is also SATA.  I believe all Rockbox targets use PATA of one connector format or another.  

Check out the wiki article on HDD replacement:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardDriveReplacement

Scuzzo:
im looking into getting a player with a bit more space now i have a 4gb flash player,  i really dig the whole rockbox application so i wish to us it to maximum
i see there is a bit of an a agreement that the Iriver h100 and h300 series are perhaps the gold standard for performance for RB.  

how would the iRiver h10 fair, are there any others who would be considered a very good option.  what issues has the iRver h10 failing to make it a good purchase for the RB platform.  just looking to gain some much needed insight on which player to look in go purchase in the future.

thanks for the fourm,

soap:
The iRiver H10 has as much in common with the iRiver H100 / H300 as the iPods do.
In fact, the iRiver H10 is an iPod mini with colour screen by another name.


The iAudio X5 / M5 is very closely related to the iRiver H100 / H300 series.

Personally, I would consider the H10 the worst Rockbox target.  It has all the downsides of the PortalPlayer targets, and a horrible slider "button".
The only upside I see is that an H10 5 or 6GB player can be easily upgraded with a CF card replacing the microdrive.  That, and colour screen can deliver more information than monochrome screens of the same resolution.

pixelma:

--- Quote from: soap on March 15, 2008, 11:52:57 PM ---The only upside I see is that an H10 5 or 6GB player can be easily upgraded with a CF card replacing the microdrive.
--- End quote ---
Which might turn out to be not even true. The microdrive used in the small H10 has a so-called "F-Flex connector" (see HardDriveReplacement wiki) - in opposite to the Ipod Mini's microdrive which has a CF type connector. I talked to someone and he said it could be possible that this F-Flex connector is made of adapters internally but he didn't take his H10 apart yet, and I couldn't find board scans that answer this question when quickly searching a bit. At least it needs some investigation...

Chronon:
I think you are correct, pixelma.  This page (Seagate Tech. ST660211FX) refers to it as a 1" removable drive with an IDE interface.  This suggests that there's no embedded adapter in the F-Flex connector.

It seems you would have to get an IDE-CF adapter to use a CF card in the H10.

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