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Gigabeat F hard-drive specifications?
GigaBrick:
I've been browsing threads mentioning the Gigabeat F40. I really love mine, got it sometime back in 2006 or something and it's still holding up, but since then my music collection has outgrown the 40 GB capacity. Oh sure it's easy to pick what I want, but I miss the days of being able to store the entire thing on it.
I caught some mention of people upgrading the hard-drives to 80 Gb capacities. I'm assuming they just bought a hard-drive of the same specifications that's in the player?
Is it just a normal 2.5" PATA? SATA? SCSI?
Anyway, I searched for "how to upgrade gigabeat harddrive" but found nothing, perhaps there's a tutorial floating around? I've seen similar ones for upgrading the battery...
saratoga:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement
GigaBrick:
--- Quote from: saratoga on July 28, 2011, 11:42:27 AM ---http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement
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Thank you, just what I was looking for. Now it seems the challenge will be actually finding one of these 1.8" drives...
sammydad1:
Ebay has had them in the past....but they aren't cheap....as compared to buying a new flash based player...
GigaBrick:
--- Quote from: sammydad1 on July 30, 2011, 01:17:33 AM ---Ebay has had them in the past....but they aren't cheap....as compared to buying a new flash based player...
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Yeah, the cheapest I was finding them for was about $50.
Question about the flash-based players... Wouldn't they just have lower capacity than I have now? I'm not aware how much flash-based memory has improved, but I thought 32 GB was about the biggest you find.
I really like my Gigabeat though so I think I'll probably just choose to upgrade that anyway.
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