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Gigabeat F hard-drive specifications?

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thenrik:
Hi:

  I'm also a big fan of the Gigabeat. I have two that I still use and many of my friends have them as well. That being said, as time goes by the hard drives are not holding up so well. I bought a 80gb Gigabeat and six months later the hard drive failed. I've recently seen also seen three other Gigabeats owned by my friends fail.

  Gigabeats are scarce, selling for $169 on Ebay. I'm looking to use the Sansa Fuse with Rockbox as replacements. 16gb micro sd  cards are fairly cheap and can be swapped in and out. Hard drive systems fail over time.

Tom

GigaBrick:

--- Quote from: thenrik on July 30, 2011, 02:20:13 PM ---Hi:

  I'm also a big fan of the Gigabeat. I have two that I still use and many of my friends have them as well. That being said, as time goes by the hard drives are not holding up so well. I bought a 80gb Gigabeat and six months later the hard drive failed. I've recently seen also seen three other Gigabeats owned by my friends fail.

  Gigabeats are scarce, selling for $169 on Ebay. I'm looking to use the Sansa Fuse with Rockbox as replacements. 16gb micro sd  cards are fairly cheap and can be swapped in and out. Hard drive systems fail over time.

Tom

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Yeah, the prospect of a mechanical drive has occurred to me, but I'm mostly not very worried about disk failure because I've had this one since 2005-2006 and the drive is holding up nicely from what I can tell.  I probably don't really use mine as much as the average DAP user though.  The thought of buying a newer player has crossed my mind, but this one is still working so well.  Actually pretty cool considering it's been 5-6 years, but as I said I probably don't listen to mine as much as the average DAP user does.  Maybe two or three times a week for a couple of hours.

bob2935:
I am in a similar situation.  About 3 years ago, the good people here recommended the Gigabeat for me, a totally blind Rockbox user looking for a dedicated Ogg Vorbis player with speech capability.  I found an F40 on Ebay and it's been perfect.  However, it's falling apart and 40 gig capacity is no longer enough.  Before I switch to something like an 80 gig IPod Video with that stupid wheel, does anyone have any better recommendations?  I don't feel comfortable trying to upgrade the harddrive in my existing player.  I'd rather pay somebody else to do it right.
Bob.

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