Hello All,

I am a new member on the forum an and am going to pick up my Blackberry Pearl sport from the dealer this week! I am wanting to get my entire music collection interfaced with the sound system on the new Fit and was wondering if anyone had successfully intefaced a larger USB harddrive as opposed to the commonly used flash drives. If anyone has any knowledge in this area, it would be muchly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

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Yep, it should work just fine, as plenty of folks have used plain old flash thumb drives, and browsed by folder. Though you should be careful about vibrations; constant bumps and rattles aren't good for a hard drive's long-term health.

 

Plus you gotta get power to it.

 

You could always use an external HDD that gets power through the USB port, like the Western Digital Passport series. You can get a 250GB one for $90 from amazon, and you'd have double the storage of an iPod classic for less than half the price.

 

Man, that's a boatload of storage!

I have managed to get my entire CD collection onto a 16GB thumb drive - about 60 CDs, including some box sets.

I still think solid state would be better in this application than rotating media.

Unless, of course you want to play LPs on a USB turntable..

 

I was under the impression that the USB port was only a passive input version with no phantom power ?

 

It is powered. I have run both 1.8" (APRICORN Aegis Mini) and 2.5" external hard drives off of it. It works great. The one thing I don't like is that even when you are playing a CD or even have the radio off there is still power going to hard drive.

 

If you want to just keep it in the glove box and don't want it rolling around, just get a wide piece of velcro to secure the HDD to the glovebox. That way, it's easy to remove too.

 

>bump< for mp3 cdz??? guess not.

anyways, got a 8gb @ newegg, Patriot Xporter. It's prtty effin fast like it claims and I can vouch for its heavy dutiness kuzh my frnd had 1 and we dropped it into a pool/freeway/ran over and it still worked! (like ma old skool nokia son! FTW!!!) lolz, but yea, here's the link

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...atriot+xporter

and don't 4get...

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/group.php?groupid=1
JOIN THE MOVEMENT!

 

that will only eliminate in storage movement... still have to worry about car movements. (bumps, fwy, stop/go, etc.)

thumb sticks go as high as 32gb now...

i have no idea how much music can be crammed into that!

 

all you need to know is a lot hahaha 32 gb?!? thats a S*** load lol

 

Hard drives hate vibration. They wont last too long spinning in a glovebox in a moving car. Crash is inevitible.

Here is a nice flash drive! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220251

 

What did he just say?

Can we get a translator in here please?

 

The FitFreak is interested in mp3 cd's, but feels that this thread lacks support for futher discussion. However, the Freak is partial to the Patriot Xporter with 8 GB from newegg and feels that is a durable product due to the fact that the Freak and a friend have: dropped in a pool, and a freeway and was ran over and still functions (which happened, quite ironically to the Freak's prior celluar phone from Nokia in which the Freak was quite attached to)

 

My iPod has a hard drive, and it takes a ton of abuse in my car, and doesn't skip a beat.

 

Awesome!

Thanks. It's so much clearer now.

 

The iPod always loads a few songs from playlist into the memory buffer first. It actually playing the song in the memory, that's why it doesn't skip.

 

I was referring more to the fact that the hard drive hasn't failed. I wasn't being literal, but looking back at that post, I see how it could be taken that way!

 

The local Fry's ad has some good deals on flash drives. After rebates...

4GB - $7
8GB - $15
16GB - $30
32GB - $70

I went and picked an 8GB version at lunch. Will be great for the Fit. They're made by Corsair and they're grippy rubber on the outside so they shouldn't ever slide/rattle around in the glovebox (not that I've noticed that with my hard plastic 512MB one).

 

Which fry's did you go to? I bought a 2GB for $9 on Monday and thought I got a good deal