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Archos Recorder 20GB V1: 1TB harddrive possible?

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WS64:
According to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/BigDisk I can use harddrives > 137GB in my Archos.

2 questions to this.

1. Can the modifications described in the above article still be done with newer releases of Rockbox? (the original article is already more than 6 years old). If not I have to stay with the firmware from November 2007 (not sure if this is a big deal or not)
2. Can I just get any (new) 2.5 harddrive and use it for this? Are there maybe problems with the height of the harddrive itself? Or anything else I did not think of yet?
I want to install a 1TB or even 1.5TB harddrive, but before I get one I want to know if this is possible at all or not.

gevaerts:

--- Quote from: WS64 on March 01, 2012, 06:43:16 AM ---According to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/BigDisk I can use harddrives > 137GB in my Archos.

2 questions to this.

1. Can the modifications described in the above article still be done with newer releases of Rockbox? (the original article is already more than 6 years old). If not I have to stay with the firmware from November 2007 (not sure if this is a big deal or not)

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Yes.


--- Quote ---2. Can I just get any (new) 2.5 harddrive and use it for this? Are there maybe problems with the height of the harddrive itself? Or anything else I did not think of yet?
I want to install a 1TB or even 1.5TB harddrive, but before I get one I want to know if this is possible at all or not.

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You need a PATA drive. Current hard drives are SATA. The largest PATA drive I'm aware of is 320GB, but I might have missed some.

WS64:
Thanks gevaerts.
320GB is not enough, too bad.
Post Merge: March 01, 2012, 02:59:37 PMWell, since I can't go with 1TB maybe I can go with something I still have.
From my non-working (not charging) Archos AV380 I have removed the harddrive, it's a Hitachi Travelstar N155 E182115 like in this picture
(but mine is 80GB, these two are 40 each).
Can I use this one? How to tell if this one is a PATA drive?
Post Merge: March 01, 2012, 03:50:52 PMNever mind, just exchanged it, works fine!

phr:
PATA drive has that 50 pin connector that you saw.  SATA has a much smaller pair of connectors (6 and 4 pin, I think) in one shell. 

Maybe this is a good time for you to upgrade to an Archos 48 Android tablet, which comes with a 500gb SATA drive that can (maybe) be upgraded to 1TB, and is smaller than your jukebox, if you really need an ultra capacity portable.  It's discontinued but there are still some left and I feel like grabbing one even though I don't really have a use for it, because I don't know of anything else being made with such capacity, and it's fairly cheap as such things go.  It runs Android 1.6 (old, crufty) but the openaos.org folks have apparently ported cyanogenmod to it.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: phr on March 15, 2012, 06:27:14 AM ---Maybe this is a good time for you to upgrade to an Archos 48 Android tablet, which comes with a 500gb SATA drive that can (maybe) be upgraded to 1TB, and is smaller than your jukebox, if you really need an ultra capacity portable.  It's discontinued but there are still some left and I feel like grabbing one even though I don't really have a use for it, because I don't know of anything else being made with such capacity, and it's fairly cheap as such things go.  It runs Android 1.6 (old, crufty) but the openaos.org folks have apparently ported cyanogenmod to it.

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Which means it doesn't run Rockbox ...

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