160 Gig Drive in a DMS? What?!? How can that be?!?

[japman12000]

If you can give me some details on the chips, I'll see what I can do...

[AlwaysCool]

$245.00 !!!

Seagate Momentus 5400.3 (Perpendicular Recording) 160GB 2.5" ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148073

Just to let you know!

[S80_UK]

I see that Hitachi have now announced their answer to the Seagate 160 GB drive, the Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 series, model HTS541616J9AT00.

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.dac393208bfae6f199558fe7eac4f0a0/

I have not seen prices anywhere yet, but maybe this competition will help to bring the price down further on the 160 GB drives.

[Trey]

Just donated $50, good luck and thanks

[todd1010]

I now have a hacked 100gb hard drive in my DMS. I've noticed that they time it takes to call up a song or track title announcement is a little slow. Is there anything that someone is working on to remedy that? I'd really like to get a 160gb drive but with around 15,000 songs on the 100gb right now it is taking some time to access the drive when you want a song. I mean its not much time but it would be nice to have something that's a little faster.

[judb]

What drive is it you used?  my 100 gig seagate drive is faster than the 10 gig toshiba that came with it I think.

There are a number of factors that could contribute to overall slowness. I assume you have run chkdsk on phtsys and phtdta and defragmented both partitions as well already right?

[todd1010]

I've been using the Seagate 100gb since the day we were able to do this hack. Once I got the music on there a while back I haven't touched it at all, I haven't even put it in the cradle.

I haven't chkdsk or deftramented it ever.

Actually the only time I do notice that the drive seems slow is when I want to here the track annoucement or with my car's head unit I can quickly jump from Track one or Disk one all the way up to 50 and that's when it seems to take some time to catch up.