Good hard drive for 880PRS

[Super Pickle 10+ year member]

I am looking for a 100-200 gig hard drive that i can plug into my 880PRS using the USB port. I was looking at a bunch of them but I'm not sure what data transfer rate and all that is good to use for a car.

As long as its below I'd say $200 the price is fine, but i definitely dont need anything bigger than 200 gigs.

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[wu501 10+ year member]

I'm assuming you have the adapter module already? And your most likely going to want a smaller hard drive as the larger hard drives require more power to turn on than the deck can supply.

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

very true,i had a really hard time finding a harddrive that draws 500mA or less

your gonna have to get like a 60gb or so

its gotta be like a 1.8" HDD

 

[Super Pickle 10+ year member]

yeah i have the USB adapter kit and all that hooked up already. Ok well even 60gigs would be fine lol, right now my music is playing through my 2gb samsung K5 and i can only fit like 300 songs on it and I want most of my music on there.

Would it be smarter just to buy something like a Creative Labs MP3 player that has alot of storage as opposed to a hard drive? it just seemed like the hard drive was a cheaper alternative.

 

[blazeplacid 10+ year member]

yes,i think that USB add on only puts out like 500mA you will need a soild 1amp to drive a harddrive.

Im not sure about other mp3 players but the ipod will work with no problem

 

[wu501 10+ year member]

I got a small 40 gb hard drive off ebay for about 40 bucks a few months back....works great with my kenwood unit.

 

[DJ Nitrous 427 10+ year member]

I bought an external harddrive case for a regular IDE hardrive that used a 12v power supply...I haven't used it in a car but I don't see how that couldn't work.. Cases can be had for ~$20 and a 500gb HD is ~$100

Not sure if there is a capacity or file limit though

 

[Super Pickle 10+ year member]

well i cant use an ipod because i use Napster (yeah, im that guy with all legal music) and its not Ipod compatible, or else I would.

I guess ill just cruise some websites for a cheap MP3 player or a 40-60gig HD

 

[DJ Nitrous 427 10+ year member]

(yeah, im that guy with all legal music)

I wish I was one of those guys....I've got over 100GB - 20,000 songs...and probably 50 songs are my own rips

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

Dont some of the hard drives use 120ac? Use a power inverter?

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Get an inverter and run the HDD off your cars electrical.

Probably be your best bet.

And anything besides an ipod or zune you won't be able to control through the unit.

 

[DJ Nitrous 427 10+ year member]

Naw..if the external HD case runs off 12v just figure out the polarity and run a wire to a relay

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Naw..if the HD runs off 12v just figure out the polarity and run a wire to a relay

Yeah, IDK what voltage HD's run on, I'm pretty sure it's 5v and 12v, but I'm not sure.

If you can get some sort of step-down unit that can step 12-14 volts down to 5 you could run the 12 volt and 5 volt terminals of any hard drive to work off your car, via relays of course.

 

[DJ Nitrous 427 10+ year member]

But you would still need an interface to convert the IDE or SATA to USB..which external HD cases have

 

[Super Pickle 10+ year member]

i think im better off just buying a 30 gig mp3 player or something lol