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what are the best/easiest hard drives upgrades for iRiver H120 and H140?
highriver:
Ok! I will keep you informed with the SSD installation on my iRiver H-120.
Once I am done with my experiments on the iRiver players I have waiting for a capacity upgrade, if some of you need more help just get back to me and I will share the knowledge.
And if someone here had success installing a 120GB or bigger HDD (not an SSD), I would like to know which HDD you installed and the procedure you followed.
Of course, anyone who managed to install a 240GB SSD is welcome as well!
[edit] just found this link: http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70395
monoid:
It looks like disk of any size may be used with bootloader 7pre4.
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,27634.0.html
I asked, if it applies also to SSD, so we will see if someone would answer it. But I expect it does apply also to SSD.
highriver:
Thanks for the info Monoid, I received my 120GB SSD, now waiting for the screwdriver!
Installing a 240GB SSD sounds nice but these are rather pricey (more than twice the price of a 120GB) while price for a 60GB is close to the one of a 120GB. At least that's how it is for the Match Xtreme branded SSD's.
Here is a link that could be helpful for those intending to install the 7pre4 bootloader:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=144613.0
monoid:
I would like to add:
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:
Success!!! I had a fright when I switched on my iRiver H120 for the first time after plugging the SSD as I got an ATA error message. The solution was quite easy, I used the hardware reset function of the player and switched it on again and the player now works like a charm! To be precise, I had to switch the player off and on a few times to save the display theme, fonts and other settings according to my liking. It appears browsing through the Rockbox software was kind of slow before saving my settings which was rather disappointing, but now it reacts very quickly, I have no idea why it was slow...
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