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what are the best/easiest hard drives upgrades for iRiver H120 and H140?
monoid:
No, I meant that I described, what is needed to do, not exactly everything what I did, because I tried to run SSD with offitial bootloader 6, but it did not work. So, I swapped the disks there and back twice, but it is not needed as you know that SSD will not work with bootloader 6. Or at least it did not work in my case. Bootloader 7pre4 is OK.
Also, if 64 GB is suffitient for you and 120 GB SSD too expensive, you may consider using Compact Flash card in adapter instead.
highriver:
Thanks, I really want to install that 120GB SSD now...
One more thing though, can you tell me how you connected the card to your PC to format it to FAT32?
I guess I will have to open my PC (not a laptop!) to connect it directly to the motherboard?
Is the connector a common one I am sure to find on my motherboard?
By the way my motherboad is this one:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM3/M4A79XTD_EVO/
Picture:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/fullimage.php?image=19613
And while I am at it, do you think the 240GB card could also be installed following your procedure?:
http://www.mx-technology.com/en/product/ssd2.php?sid=5#fragment-16
monoid:
I used converter from 1.8" 50 pin ATA to normal disk ATA and plugged it into a universal ATA/eSATA - USB converter.
This:
http://mb-shop.cz/ide-kabely/adapter-pro-zif1825-ide-hdd-na-ide-40-pin-%28vyrobek-S-324940%29
And something like this:
http://www.saverman.cz/obchod/digitus-adapter-pro-pripojeni-ide-sata-hdd-na-usb-2-0-vcetne-zdroje
I cannot locate PATA connectors on your motherboard, maybe they are there, but PATA discs are not used very much now-days, so I guess they are not there.
Probably better (than my solution) would be to use native 1.8" disk housing with USB (you need 50 pin ATA, no ZIF or ATA with different number of pins). You could use old iRiver disk in it later on or SSD disk if you decide replace SSD in iRiver with different, or iRiver dies. :(
I mean something like this:
http://www.memoryc.com/storage/enclosures/kingspec18inchcf50pinssd.html
highriver:
Thanks again for your very useful explanations.
I think I will purchase the 1.8" disk housing with USB as you relevantly pointed out that after using it to format the SSD card, I could fit my old iRiver HD inside of it (I actually have a few iRivers in stock I wish to experiment with so I will have use more than once for the disk housing to format SSD's or HDD's).
Do you think the Mach Xtreme 240GB SSD could be installed following the procedure you applied with the 120GB SSD?
That is the one here:
http://www.mx-technology.com/en/product/ssd2.php?sid=5#fragment-16
Also, can I easily plug the Mach Xtreme SDD into an iRiver H-140 as well?
monoid:
I do not know, if 240 GB will work or not. I would like to know, what is the limit for disk size. If the limit is in RockBox, one could recompile it somehow. I do not have the skill....
But if it is in bootloader and it is less than 240 GB then you would have a problem. There is a problem with iRiver source code for bootloader. Something went wrong and so it is highly recomended not to compile own bootloader. (That is why I experimented, if last offitial works with SSD or not. I was scared to brick iRiver using potentialy defective bootloader. 7pre4 seems to be OK, no problems.)
The smaller one (120 GB) works in my H120, so it should work in yours, but one never knows... :o
Try to ask in "Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players" part of forum something like: "iRiver H1x0 - What is the limit on SSD/HDD size using bootloader 7pre4?". Someone hopefully will know the answer.
I would like to Mod another iRiver with possibly bigger disk than 120 GB.
EDIT:
Yes, that SSD may be also used in H140. Only some kind of padding will be needed as H140 uses a bit thickier HDD.
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