TomN Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I was wondering if anyone has tried this or know anything about headunits with usb connection can work with external hard drives? Because at the moment i'm using a 4GB usb but its filled up already and i was wondering if the external hard drive would work. Anyone got any experinces? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Quigley Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I'd say possibly not.I think memory sticks are Solid State where as a HDD has moving parts.could possibly work but I wouldn't want a HDD rolling around in my car. (would be jumpy and potentially damage the HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I'd say possibly not.I think memory sticks are Solid State where as a HDD has moving parts.could possibly work but I wouldn't want a HDD rolling around in my car. (would be jumpy and potentially damage the HDD.Possibly true. Having said that, most of the Alpine HUs have iPod support which works fine with my 30G iPod (which has a proper hard drive inside). I would imagine it would be OK but I dunno. You'd have to get a notebook harddrive so it's powered off the HU and doesn't require additional power. For the amount they cost (I just found one for £45 for 120Gb), perhaps it doesn't really matter if they break after a year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Oh right does the majority of exhard drives require additional power? Yeah i was thinkings fixing the hard drive down somewhere does it doesn't fly about, ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Oh right does the majority of exhard drives require additional power?Yeah, they do. Smaller (laptop) ones don't need power and are slightly more expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavyn. Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 cigarette lighter to 230-240v ac converter? then run a 500gb one without any trouble. those adaptors are pretty good. my dad runs his laptop off one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I have a sneaky feeling if you can get power to it, then it should run (as in, don't rely on the headunit to power the hard drive)Nice idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endofreak Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Bought the Mrs a Sony Headunit for christmas that has usb on the front of it. It's great for playing music from her 2gb mp3 player and I've plugged my 8gb Nokia N81 into it. It plays tracks from the Nokia but because of the larger storage space, it takes a few minutes to read the storage before it starts playing so I imagine it would take a hell of a lot longer for a large storage device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyzplace Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I got a Pioneer 7000 UB about 6 months ago and I'm running a Formac 80gb hard drive to it. Works really well, although there is about a 20-30 second delay when you turn it on (while it loads all the tracks)Its really simple to use although it can be fiddly while driving.I used a blaupunkt unit before that which was just as good but not as nice to look at Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted March 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Yeah mine is a Blaupunkt one with Aux and Bluetooth. My 4GB Usb has a delay aswell but it's alright once it's all loaded. Cheers lads, I'll have a look round for a Hard drive then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinJI Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Yeah, I've used my 120gb external HD through my head unit before (self powered laptop type one), it was fine with just music on the hard drive, but once I put some documents and videos on there it seemed to get confused and took forever to load each time you turned it on.To be fair I think you'll have a job finding a journey where 4gb of music runs out I use my 4gb sony MP3 player through mine now and its easily enough space to have a nice veriaty of music on there, without taking days to sort through and find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted March 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Yeah true, it takes time finding the song or album. But sometimes i wanting something that ain't on the usb. ah well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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