External Portable Hard Drive - 2010 USB
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External Portable Hard Drive - 2010 USB
Not sure if this has been discussed in too much detail, but I did some experimenting and here are my results.
Bought a 750Gig External HDD (portable) which is only powered by usb.
Formatted it to FAT32, loaded about 80Gb of music and hooked it up
to my USB port. It recognizes the drive as a USB Flash and begins to play the music, no problems at all. I also formatted a smaller 40Gb Drive similarly and hooked it up no problems.
This may be an alternative to those who don't want to keep their Ipod or Iphone hooked up to the USB port for a more Permanent solution.
The upside is you can buy a 320Gb portable drive for around $60 and have days of music, the downside is there is no way to sort the music or make playlists so you are stuck fishing through folders.
Unless of course you make your fav mix and put it all in the first folder.
Bought a 750Gig External HDD (portable) which is only powered by usb.
Formatted it to FAT32, loaded about 80Gb of music and hooked it up
to my USB port. It recognizes the drive as a USB Flash and begins to play the music, no problems at all. I also formatted a smaller 40Gb Drive similarly and hooked it up no problems.
This may be an alternative to those who don't want to keep their Ipod or Iphone hooked up to the USB port for a more Permanent solution.
The upside is you can buy a 320Gb portable drive for around $60 and have days of music, the downside is there is no way to sort the music or make playlists so you are stuck fishing through folders.
Unless of course you make your fav mix and put it all in the first folder.
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The real issue with just using a gigantic HDD is the built-in limitation on the number of folders and files that the car's system will even read. At some point, you may be better off just burning some DVD-DL's (at 8 Gb each). A mere 5000 music files won't begin to dent the capacity of a 750Gb HDD, so most of the space will go to waste.
For the 2010 model, the file limits are as follows:
Without Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders and files: 999 (Max. 255 files for one folder)
With Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders: 512 (including root folder), Files: 5,000
For the 2010 model, the file limits are as follows:
Without Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders and files: 999 (Max. 255 files for one folder)
With Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders: 512 (including root folder), Files: 5,000
Last edited by Noremac; 08-08-2010 at 07:33 PM.
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And if the limit is 5k songs, even if you use 320kbps MP3s (estimate 8MB each) you will only reach about 40GB.
On that note, Slickdeals shows $20 off an Agility:
60GB OCZ 2.5" SATA II Agility 2 Solid State Drive (SSD) - Slickdeals.net
#5
The bigger problem for me is not being able to browse through folders/files while playing another song. I gave up and ended up getting an old ipod. I am sure Apple paid a bunch of money to Inifiniti to keep it this way.
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i am loading up a thumb drive right now.
i have folders of mp3 with playlist titles.
do I drop the various folders into the thumbdrive and call it a day.
or do the various folders need to be in a solo folder inside the thumbdrive.
i have folders of mp3 with playlist titles.
do I drop the various folders into the thumbdrive and call it a day.
or do the various folders need to be in a solo folder inside the thumbdrive.
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The real issue with just using a gigantic HDD is the built-in limitation on the number of folders and files that the car's system will even read. At some point, you may be better off just burning some DVD-DL's (at 8 Gb each). A mere 5000 music files won't begin to dent the capacity of a 750Gb HDD, so most of the space will go to waste.
For the 2010 model, the file limits are as follows:
Without Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders and files: 999 (Max. 255 files for one folder)
With Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders: 512 (including root folder), Files: 5,000
For the 2010 model, the file limits are as follows:
Without Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders and files: 999 (Max. 255 files for one folder)
With Nav
Folder levels: 8, Folders: 512 (including root folder), Files: 5,000
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the problem with a big drive is that it might take forever for it to do the initial scan after starting up the car. Not sure if SSD is any faster (because it could be the Infiniti's system being slow, not the harddrive itself)
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