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what are the best/easiest hard drives upgrades for iRiver H120 and H140?

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highriver:
Hey guys,

Looking for your knowledge on how to upgrade two iRiver players with new hard drives, one H120 and one H140.

My main question is, what are the easiest hard drives to install that are at least 80GB?

A 240GB drive would be great but unless they are really easy to install I prefer not to experiment with adaptors and bootloaders as I don't want to risk breaking anything inside the players or spend too much time on software issues.

So far it looks like it would be a piece of cake to install a 80GB but what about 120GB or larger capacity?

monoid:
I've just recently replaced old disk in H120 by 120 GB SSD.

SSD cost cca 130 EUR+VAT. It is 50 pin ATA, so no adapter was needed. Bootloader 6 did not work, but 7pre4 works fine. I did not have to compile or so anything.

My procedure was:
1) Rockbox iRiver (it has bootloader 6)
2) Load bootloader 7pre4 to iRiver's HDD and flash it using RockBox to iRiver's EEPROM.
3) Format SSD using PC (you need something like swissknife, fat32format, ...)
4) copy .rockbox from iRiver's HDD to SSD
5) Remove HDD from iRiver
6) Insert SDD to IRiver
7) Copy music to IRiver

(In reality I had intermidiet steps - trying SSD with bootlosder 6) If you want to use classical HDD, bootloader 6 might be OK.

Have a look also here:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,40018.0.html

EDIT:
I flashed only the bootloader 7pre4. I did not flash ROM and/or RAM afterwards. (I do not know if flashing RAM/ROM makes things better or worse.  I do not have a desire to experiment. )

highriver:
Thanks a lot for your answer.

Can you tell me exactly what is the brand and reference number for the 120 GB SSD you installed inside your iRiver H-120?

Is it any different to one of the Toshiba "MK" HDD?

monoid:
It is not either Toshiba or classical HDD.

I use SSD disk "Mach Xtreme Technology Nano 50Pin Series 1,8" PATA SSD - 120GB". It has 50 pin connector, so no reduction is needed. It is 5 mm thick and about 0.5 cm shorted than original HDD. It cost cca 130 EUR+VAT.

Using SSD over HDD has advantage in lower consumption, resistance to shocks and no noise of spinning (if you want to use H120 also as dictafon, this is handy). It has disadvantage of much higher price. :(

http://www.tiphardware.cz/mach-xtreme-technology-nano-50pin-series-1-8-pata-ssd-120gb.html The shop is based in Germany, so I guess they will also have pages in German or English.

I found also this disk, and it should probably work as well.
http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk/128gbkingspec18inchidecf50pincf186.html

highriver:
Thanks... A 120GB SSD sounds like the way to go!

You wrote "(In reality I had intermidiet steps - trying SSD with bootlosder 6)"

Do you mean there were other steps to the procedure you didn't mention?

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