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iRiver iHP-1X0 mSATA SSD drive mod
DMinor:
--- Quote from: cereal_killer on February 03, 2013, 03:08:12 PM ---Interesting. I get
Super Talent DuraDrive ZT2 256GB, 1.8", ZIF : €254 (~US$345)
Crucial m4 SSD 256GB, mSATA 6Gb/s (CT256M4SSD3): €180 (~US$250)
Adding the price for an adapter (don't know which one exactly) makes the difference even smaller.
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Crucial m4 SSD 256GB, mSATA is sold for $185 at Amazon.
monoid:
From, what was written in this forum, it seems that the bootloader of iHP-1x0 (H-1x0) cannot be changed/fixed at present time. There was introduced some kind of bug years ago which bricks the player. The current state of bootloader is that it is unmaitenancable. :(
So, nobody can count on that if mSATA SSD disk will not work that someone will be able to fix the bootloader.
If you use 50 pin PATA (CF) SSD, you do not need any adapter.
This 120 GB works for sure (I have it and another user as well). They make also 240 GB, so most probably it will work as well.
http://www.mx-technology.com/en/product/ssd2.php?sid=5#fragment-16
hypergreatthing:
I'll repost from another forum:
and success! rockbox reads it. Did a battery swap to a 2200 mAh one as well. That little battery plug is a pain in the ass to get in there.
So apparently my boot loader (version 6?) recognized the drive. All i did for good measure was to connect the usb, format the drive as ntsb so windows would assign a drive letter, then i used guiformat to format it to fat32 (with 32k cluster sizes). Copied my backup of the old 40 gig drive back to it and started it up. Rockbox loaded up.
I'm fairly sure the original firmware doesn't work (confirmed, says check hdd) but with rockbox and usb working i don't mind.
I got some pics, lemme see how to get them on here.
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9680/20130221204458.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3562/20130221204509.jpg
thanks again for the inspiration =)
^^
This was using a crucial msata 256 gig ssd with msata to zif adapter and the zif to toshiba hdd adapter
Love it. If you need a screen shot of total space on the iriver i'll be happy to add one
bpfiguer:
--- Quote from: hypergreatthing on February 22, 2013, 10:09:28 PM ---I'll repost from another forum:
and success! rockbox reads it. Did a battery swap to a 2200 mAh one as well. That little battery plug is a pain in the ass to get in there.
So apparently my boot loader (version 6?) recognized the drive. All i did for good measure was to connect the usb, format the drive as ntsb so windows would assign a drive letter, then i used guiformat to format it to fat32 (with 32k cluster sizes). Copied my backup of the old 40 gig drive back to it and started it up. Rockbox loaded up.
I'm fairly sure the original firmware doesn't work (confirmed, says check hdd) but with rockbox and usb working i don't mind.
I got some pics, lemme see how to get them on here.
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9680/20130221204458.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3562/20130221204509.jpg
thanks again for the inspiration =)
^^
This was using a crucial msata 256 gig ssd with msata to zif adapter and the zif to toshiba hdd adapter
Love it. If you need a screen shot of total space on the iriver i'll be happy to add one
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Thank you for posting!
How fast is now the player compared with the Toshiba hard drive disk or another reference (bootup, shutdown, browsing files, etc.)?
How fast is transferring files to the player through USB?
Did you try WAV or lossless files?
Does gapless work fine?
How is the battery life?
Does the player behave stable or freeze sometimes?
hypergreatthing:
It's pretty hard to compare honestly. I had an issue where the hdd light would come on and freeze up the player for like 10-15 seconds. After a day of using it that seems to be gone. USB transfer speed from my computer seems to go at like 12-14 megs a second without slowing down. Rockbox seems to boot fairly fast. I'll take a few videos and you can see yourself. I was scrolling in rockbox and i didn't see any issues. Again I'll show it off in a video i guess. Battery i can't tell. I can turn it on and time it, but it's a new 2200 mAh one, not the original. It wouldn't be a really good test.
I did notice that after a day of using it through my computer and using it as a hard drive, i noticed it was a bit warm to the touch. Not hot or anything, but i didn't notice any heat with the original harddrive in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpInHxTpbwA
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