Can a USB on head units run external hard drives??

this is one of the best ideas ever created to integrate with a head unit. will they read video off the hard drive as well? assuming they are in the correct compressed format of course.

 
yup //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Any drives that are formatted with NTFS will have to be reformatted to work with a HU, I really really doubt any HU can read the NTFS format
i swear i read that it handled NTFS and FAT32, so that's why i didn't worry about it. someone mentioned it at another place, so i tried it and ta da!! only problem is you can't format FAT32 in more than 32gig partitions...well within XP you can't. you can however download a nice little utility like CompuApps Swissknife and it will format the whole drive in FAT32. so i'm all set, 40gig drive with 7gigs to spare, i should be fine for a while. and most importantly no additional power source!!

 
The problem with the FAT32 file system is that it has a 4GB file size limit... so if you have large videos (I haven't tried videos on mine yet, but I assume they would work also), you wouldn't be able to put them onto the drive.

 
lol, and yet, none of that actually made any sense!
firstly, USB ports are 5 volts... and the rest of that post? well, I'll just let it go //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
made sense to me. the voltage is going to be constant to all the other usb ports in the circuit now.

 
I have the KDC-X590... Bought it when it first came out. You can get it for cheap nowadays.
The newer HU's I'm looking at now lack USB support though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif
do you know that much about the excelons... i want one with good ipod interface or one that runs an external hard drive like that...

 
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