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iAudio X5L and 240GB MK2431GAH

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torne:
Any hard drive which physically fits and has the right connector should now work, but you will need to manually install the test version of the bootloader from the official test builds forum, as the current released bootloader doesn't support large drives.

kvnknrd:
Ok sounds good. I have a thread up in here right now about a potentially bricked ipod and I found those 240gb usb drives for like 175 shipped.. not such a bad deal after pricing it around.. just have to weigh out whether I actually need that much space or not. Plus if it fails on me in a couple years due to the poor housing of a 5.5 gen ipod I'll be pretty miffed.

Nick H.:
What's the best way to acquire this drive? Walmart has the Apricorn for $199: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Apricorn-A18-USB-240-Aegis-Mini-240GB-4200-RPM-2MB-Cache-USB-2.0-External-Hard-Drive/11017038?sourceid=1500000000000003142050&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=11017038

Jennifur:

--- Quote from: sixthofmay on March 23, 2010, 08:30:37 PM ---Thanks for the speed tips! I checked with that utility and it's running at UDMA4, but that wasn't the issue. I forgot that when copying from my music server over my gige network to a USB drive, transfers go slow for some reason... Copying from a local drive, I timed about 70 seconds for a 1400MB file, or 20MB/sec.

I took some more pics and closed it up and have copied about 160GB of music to it now, mostly flacs and preliminary tests are good. No problems listening to the last folders copied over. I'll take it to work the rest of this week and see how it goes.

Here's chkdsk output (win XP):
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume AEGIS MINI created 9/15/2009 3:46 PM
Volume Serial Number is 239D-42BC
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
  234,371,232 KB total disk space.
       23,840 KB in 743 folders.
  166,434,304 KB in 9,114 files.
   67,913,056 KB are available.

       32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
    7,324,101 total allocation units on disk.
    2,122,283 allocation units available on disk.


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It is going slower over the network than from a local drive because network transfers are almost always slower. Fast ethernet is 100 megabit a second which is roughly 10 megabytes a second. Wifi-N can be a bit quicker. The max for it is 300 megabit a second which is roughly 30 megabyte a second. You also have it copying from the network share, to a temporary folder on the computer's hard drive, then to your player.

Nick H.:
I have a 30GB X5L and would love to do this upgrade, but I'm not clever enough. Any chance of one of you brainiacs writing an idiot's guide?

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