From: Stuart Tedford <stuart.tedford_at_piresearch.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:33:00 +0100

When I changed the stock (fujitsu 20G) drive for a 40G toshiba I immediately
noticed that the firmware locked up more during disk reads - (this was some
time ago and disk reads have become more stable in recent versions of
RockBox).

I'm not sure about the ibm but I would stick with the fujitsu too, if there
was no capacity reason for the change.

Stu.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: RCS-Technik_at_t-online.de [mailto:RCS-Technik_at_t-online.de]
> Sent: 16 October 2002 12:13
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Re: Hard Drive
>
>
> >
> > I have a second hand recorder 20 coming, I also have a spare IBM
> > travelstar 20 gig (9.5mm) hard drive available. Does anyone know if
> > the IBM is likely to be better than the Archos supplied hard drive ?
> > So is it worth swapping the two ? Thanks,
> It makes no sense. What except size would you expect to
> improve by changing the
> hard drive? Speed? Not an issue. Noise? Maybe, but the
> original drive is quiet
> enough.
> I replaced my 20 gig drive with a 60 gig one. That makes a
> REAL difference and is
> worth disassembling and reassembling the unit.
> Don´t change you drive until you have a bigger one as
> replacement (30,40,60 GB).
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
>
>
Received on 2002-10-16