has anyone tried a usb hard drive connected to their car? any problems with hard suspension? blaupunkt are offering a mp3 head unit and 80gb hard drive for

I use an Iriver 20GB hard drive mp3 connected to the Skoda Head unit and it's never skipped or crashed once.

I'd imagine the had drive they use will be one designed for mobility and be pretty hardwearing. You can get a normal 80GB harddrive for about £20 so there must be some reason why this costs £230.

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Yes, dont see why not.

I have a Kenwood 534UG (or something like that number) head unit and thats got an 80gb hard drive on it with 7 gig of music (about 2500 tracks) and its ok. It can be quite slow in initial loading but remove all folders, and have the tracks in the root (E:/ for example) to save time indexing the files, this cuts the time abit. Im still trying to get mine to work to a point where Im happy enough with it, but at the moment it takes about 2 mins to initally load up which is a bit annoying, as I spent

i think the time loading up would rule it out for me. my journey home from work takes about 5-10 mins so a good portion of my journey would be waiting for my music to load up. i think i'll go down the ipod route as these seem to work instantly!

cheers guys

adam

i think the time loading up would rule it out for me. my journey home from work takes about 5-10 mins so a good portion of my journey would be waiting for my music to load up. i think i'll go down the ipod route as these seem to work instantly!

cheers guys

adam

I have now cut it to about 15~20 seconds with about 7gig of music!

Im a happy boy now!

how did you cut the time down and is that 15-20 secs for every time you make a selection?

adam

how did you cut the time down and is that 15-20 secs for every time you make a selection?

adam

Turn radio on, wait about 10~15seconds for device to read.

Radio then knows the location of tracks (via File Alocation Table - FAT)

Skip tracks and wait about half a second between tracks.

Problem is I dropped my hard drive 5 foot onto a concrete floor this morning so I will have to reload my tracks:(

If you are going to go down the hard drive route then get a iPod case or something so that it absorbs impacts when carrying.