What new HD for Original Jukebox studio 20?

[hanak.j]

My JB20 is starting to make those dreaded clicking sounds! :'(

What have you done when this happens?  I'm thinking new drive.  What would you recommend I put into it, and where would you get it?

Looking for 80GB or more.

Thanks for your help.

[Llorean]

Please don't post such questions in the "Installation" forum.

When the wiki returns, there's a hard drive replacement wiki page t hat should offer a good deal of advice, I think.

[TAC109]

How old are your batteries? 

As batteries age they develop a high internal resistance, and may not be able to supply enough voltage to power the hard drive, causing the clicking sounds.

Try a new set of batteries to see if that cures the problem.

[hanak.j]

Batteries are new, and this even happens when plugged into AC power.  When these sounds were made by my iPod, death followed soon.

Also, I thought this was the "Repairing broken players"  forum.  Is fixing a defective HD not appropriate material?

[Chronon]

I interpret Llorean's message as saying that it was originally in the installation forum, not here.  This is fair play for this forum.   

The wiki page that you want is called HardDriveReplacement.  I also found a useful table via Google whose contents should probably be added to our wiki page: http://hdmp4.com/Choose+HDD

Also, read our wiki page called BigDisk if you wish to get a drive that's larger than 137GB.

[Llorean]

You originally posted this in the installation forum. I moved it. Now it's in the right place, yes. It wasn't before.

[TAC109]

Batteries are new, and this even happens when plugged into AC power.  When these sounds were made by my iPod, death followed soon.

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Ok. The JBR20 takes a standard old-style 2½ inch laptop PATA drive. There is no point in getting a fast drive as this will just use up more power with no noticeable performance improvement, so the slower the better. Drives larger than 128GiB need a specially compiled version of Rockbox to make use of the space beyond 128GiB. Good luck!